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· 3/17/1961

Karpe v. Great American Indemnity Co.

Citations

  • 190 Cal. App. 2d 226
  • 11 Cal. Rptr. 908
  • 1961 Cal. App. LEXIS 2287

How courts have described this case

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  • holding an insured’s dispatch of another’s cow to the slaughterhouse was potentially accidental because the insured might have confused the cow for one of his own
  • cow owner who left animal at ranch to have cow bred by ranch owner’s bull could recover when ranch owner mistakenly sent cow to slaughterhouse along with his own stock, either for breach of bailment contract, negligence, or conversion

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Judges: Coughlin

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