California Court of Appeal

TOMASSI v. SCARFF, H019019

Since an insurer of defendant in wrongful death lawsuit is not an "aggrieved party" under Code of Civil Procedure section 663, it lacks standing to vacate a judgment against its insured.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/28/2000
• Published 12/28/2000

Judges

•  ELIA, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Horvitz & Levy and Barry R. Levy and H. Thomas Watson, Encino, O'Melveny & Myers and Martin S. Checov and Stuart C. Plunkett, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Katz & Lapides and Robert Jay Katz and Lisa Jeong Cummins, Capitola, Laura E. Rasmussen, Palo Alto, for Respondents Dino Tomassi, et al., David R. Finch and Ron Leaf, San Mateo, for Respondent Campbell Towing, Inc.