People Ex Rel. Los Angeles Bar Ass'n v. California Protective Corp.

This is a proceeding in quo warranto brought by the attorney-general in the name of the People, upon the information and complaint of the Los Angeles Bar Association, to exclude defendant from the practice of law, to oust it from all corporate franchises, and to fine it in the sum of $5,000.

Defendant filed a demurrer to the complaint, which was overruled. An answer was then filed which denied some, but not all, of the allegations of the complaint. . In its answer defendant undertook again to demur to the complaint. The first demurrer was both general and special. It specified, as the sole ground for special ^demurrer, that plaintiff has not legal capacity to sue. The second demurrer was like the first, except that it added, as an additional ground of special demurrer, that there is a defect of parties defendant. The action came on for trial August 8, 1923, and defendant failing to appear, the court, after overruling the second demurrer, filed findings of fact in favor of plaintiff and entered a judgment which restrained the corporation from the practice of law in this state, excluded it from the exercise of all corporate franchises in California, and imposed upon it a fine of…