California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Bosworth v. Superior Court In and For Los Angeles County, 143 Cal.App.2d 775, 300 P.2d 155 (Cal. App. 1956):
Further than this, the special administrator whom plaintiff in intervention succeeded as personal representative of the decedent, having refused to join as a party plaintiff in the original complaint, had been joined as a defendant therein, and was therefore, in legal effect, a plaintiff in the original action, Donohoe v. Wooster, 163 Cal. 114, 117, 124 P. 730; [143 Cal.App.2d 779] and the administrator's intervention was but the assertion of the right given him by section 466 of the Probate Code to prosecute that action to final judgment.
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