· 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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