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STODDART v. PEIRCE

Docket No. L.A. 25452.

53 Cal.2d 105 (1959)

346 P.2d 774

MARY STODDART et al., Respondents, v. WILLIAM G. PEIRCE et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

November 30, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fitzgerald, Cozy, Gyger & Nelson, W. Walter Livingston, Jr., Smith & Wilson and Andrew V. Smith for Appellants.

John R. Allport, Betts, Ely & Loomis, Ball, Hunt & Hart, Clarence S. Hunt, Hunter & Liljestrom, Harold J. Hunter, Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon, Partridge, O'Connell & Partridge, Bledsoe, Smith, Cathcart, Johnson & Phelps and Wilbur J. Russ as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellants.

Pray & Price and William C. Price for Respondents.

PETERS, J.

This appeal from a judgment in favor of plaintiffs in a personal injury action presents two questions of law not hitherto determined by the appellate courts of this state, both dependent upon a proper interpretation of section 402 of the Vehicle Code* (Owner's Liability Law).1 The action arises from a collision between a vehicle in which plaintiffs were...

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