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DE CRUZ v. REID

Docket No. L.A. 29558.

69 Cal.2d 217 (1968)

444 P.2d 342

70 Cal. Rptr. 550

BERTHA MERLOS VDA. DE CRUZ et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. DAVID WALLACE REID et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

August 19, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Murchison, Cumming, Baker & Velpmen, Howard C. Velpmen and Henry F. Walker for Defendants and Appellants.

Eckhardt & Kearney, Olen G. Miller and Matthew M. Kearney for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Edward I. Pollock, Robert E. Cartwright, Theodore A. Horn, Robert G. Beloud and Leonard Sacks as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.

SULLIVAN, J.

In this action for wrongful death brought by the widow and three minor children of an agricultural worker, defendants David Wallace Reid and Don Dale appeal from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict in favor of plaintiffs in the sum of $40,000.

Decedent was employed on the Kitigawa Ranch as a "pusher" or "straw boss." Kitigawa ordered fertilizer from a chemical company which contracted with defendant...

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