Coast & S. Fed. S. & L. v. Trans-Coast S. & L.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of defendant Trans-Coast Savings and Loan Association of Oxnard ("Trans-Coast") which followed an order sustaining Trans-Coast's demurrer to plaintiff's second amended complaint without leave to amend.

The filing of this action was occasioned by the fact that on June 5, 1969, over plaintiff's protest, the savings and loan commissioner of the State of California ("commissioner") approved an application of the Oxnard Savings and Loan Association to change its name to Trans-Coast Savings and Loan Association of Oxnard. Thereafter Trans-Coast opened a branch office in Sherman Oaks, California just about the same time as plaintiff's predecessor, Coast Federal Savings and Loan Association of Los Angeles merged with Southern Federal Savings and Loan Association of Los Angeles ("Coast"). In some of its advertising defendant called itself simply "Trans-Coast Savings."

Plaintiff did not seek judicial review of the commisioner's order of June 5, 1969. Presumably such review would have taken the form of "administrative mandate." (Code Civ. Proc., § 1094.5.)

The complaint contains the usual allegations in an action for unfair…