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· 6/26/1961

Gonzalez v. Derrington

Citations

  • 56 Cal. 2d 130
  • 363 P.2d 1
  • 14 Cal. Rptr. 1
  • 1961 Cal. LEXIS 278

How courts have described this case

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  • finding defendants not liable for selling gasoline to individuals who started a fire in a bar because “the intentional misconduct of Bates and Chavez[ ] ... constituted an independent, intervening cause” of the injuries to the patrons in the bar
  • risk that purchaser of gasoline in open five gallon container would use it intentionally to set a tavern on fire was not reasonably foreseeable

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