Plaintiffs are the surviving heirs at law of the decedent.
Plaintiffs do not know the true names of defendants DOES 1 through 50, inclusive, and therefore sue them by those fictitious names. Plaintiffs are informed and believe, and on the basis of that information and belief allege, that at all times mentioned in this complaint, defendants were the agents and employees of their codefendants, and in doing the things alleged in this complaint were acting within the course and scope of that agency and employment. As a further direct and proximate result of the foregoing, plaintiffs have been generally damaged in a sum to be established according to proof, as provided by Code of Civil Procedure sections 425.10 and 425.11. As a further direct and proximate result of the death of the deceased, plaintiffs have incurred reasonable and necessary expenses for decedent's funeral, burial, and memorial services to their damage in a presently unascertained sum. Plaintiffs request permission to insert the amount when it is finally determined.