Hoag

This is a petition for writ of mandate to direct respondent court to transfer action now pending in the Los Angeles Superior Court against this petitioner to the Superior Court of the County of Orange.

On September 6, 1961, the real parties in interest herein, Irving W. Hall, George F. Murray and Robert J. Meisenbach, hereinafter referred to as plaintiffs, commenced an action seeking damages against each of four defendants, one of whom is petitioner, upon asserted grounds of invasion of privacy.

The complaint contains twelve causes of action, one on behalf of each of the three plaintiffs against each of the four defendants. The first cause of action is plaintiff Hall versus defendant Graybill, and since most of the allegations thereof have been incorporated in all other causes they will be set forth at length. It is alleged in paragraph II thereof that plaintiff is a citizen of the United States; that he is a graduate of the University of California, the recipient of a fellowship at said university, and a part-time reader at said university in Berkeley, California. Paragraph III alleges that defendant D. B. Graybill is a resident of Los Angeles County and that the acts…