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· 11/17/1948

Summers v. Tice

Citations

  • 33 Cal. 2d 80
  • 199 P.2d 1
  • 5 A.L.R. 2d 91
  • 1948 Cal. LEXIS 290

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that, where two hunters independently breached a duty to the plaintiff, but there was uncertainty regarding which one caused the plaintiff's injury, both were liable in the absence of sufficient causal evidence as to either defendant
  • liability imposed on both of two hunters who fired toward plaintiff, burden on each defendant to show he did not cause injury

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Judges: Carter

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