HOLTZ v. UNITED PLUMBING & HEATING CO.

Docket No. L.A. 24649.

49 Cal.2d 501 (1957)

319 P.2d 617

DOROTHY M. HOLTZ, Appellant, v. UNITED PLUMBING AND HEATING COMPANY, INC. (a Corporation) et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

December 27, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Jerome Pollack and Abraham Gottfried for Appellant.

Hirson & Horn, Herbert L. Hirson, Theodore A. Horn, Edward M. Raskin, Ben C. Cohen, Leonard C. Ratner, Edison J. Demler, Boccardo, Blum & Lull, James F. Boccardo, Ashe & Pinney, Van H. Pinney, Elmer Low, Pollock & Pollock, Edward I. Pollock, Oliver, Good & Sloan, Richard L. Oliver, Rose, Klein & Marias, Victor C. Rose, Samuel A. Rosenthal, Charles M. Feldstein, Lionel Campbell, Irwin D. Karesh, Downey A. Grosenbaugh, Marion P. Betty, Eugene E. Sax, and Myron L. Garon as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellant.

Dryden, Harrington, Horgan & Swartz, Vernon G. Foster, Spray, Gould & Bowers and Frank J. Breslin, Jr., for Respondents.


GIBSON, C.J.

Plaintiff brought this action for the wrongful deaths of her husband and her son who were killed when the automobile in which they were traveling collided with one driven by Orville Brew on State Highway 138 near Pearblossom, California. All occupants of both cars died as a result of the collision. In addition to the administratrix of Brew's estate, plaintiff named as defendants Byron W. Taylor and United Plumbing and Heating Company, Inc., who were asserted...

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