GONZALES v. COUNTY OF MERCED

Docket No. 176.

214 Cal.App.2d 761 (1963)

29 Cal. Rptr. 675

GILBERT D. GONZALES, Claimant and Respondent, v. COUNTY OF MERCED et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

April 4, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McCormick, Barstow, Sheppard & Coyle and Hollis G. Best for Defendants and Appellants.

Kane & Canelo, Adolph B. Canelo III and Ferol Thorpe Boucher for Claimant and Respondent.


BROWN (R.M.), J.

This is an appeal from an order granting respondent's petition to file a claim pursuant to Government Code section 716 after the expiration of the 100-day filing period (Gov. Code, § 715).

The respondent, then 21 years of age, was injured on June 25, 1961, in striking his head while diving into Lake Yosemite. Immediately thereafter he was paralyzed from the chest downward, fracturing his cervical spine with resulting quadriplegia. The...

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