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GOOD v. STATE OF CALIFORNIA

Docket No. Sac. 7363.

57 Cal.2d 512 (1962)

370 P.2d 341

20 Cal. Rptr. 637

JOAN GOOD, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem, etc., et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Defendant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 4, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P.M. Barceloux, Burton J. Goldstein, Goldstein, Barceloux & Goldstein and Reginald M. Watt for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Charles A. Barrett, Assistant Attorney General, F.G. Girard and Michael Traynor, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Respondent.

Harold Kennedy, County Counsel (Los Angeles), Lloyd S. Davis, Deputy County Counsel, Roger Arnebergh, City Attorney (Los Angeles), and Bourke Jones, Assistant City Attorney, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.

GIBSON, C.J.

The wife and children of a man killed by an explosion of dynamite brought this action in 1959 against the State of California and others to recover damages for his wrongful death.

The allegations of the complaint may be summarized as follows: Decedent was killed while he was working in a tunnel in which exploratory work was being done for the Oroville Dam Project. The state had the management and control of the place of employment and the employees...

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