PRETRIAL ADJUDICATION
...Pleading
......Complaints
.........Fictitious Defendants
............Must Be Ignorant of True Name
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Ignorance of which Code Civ. Proc. §474 speaks is actual ignorance, and P will not be refused right to use Doe even where P’s lack of actual knowledge attributable to own negligence.

P must be ignorant of true D when P files complaint.