STATE FARM MUT. AUTO. INS. CO. v. PARTRIDGE

Docket No. Sac. 7973.

10 Cal.3d 94 (1973)

514 P.2d 123

109 Cal. Rptr. 811

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. WAYNE E. PARTRIDGE et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

September 25, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Rich, Fuidge, Dawson, Marsh, Morris, Sanbrook & Grove and Chester Morris for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Jones & Weldon, Charles R. Weldon and Leonard Sacks for Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

TOBRINER, J.

The instant case presents a somewhat novel question of insurance coverage: when two negligent acts of an insured — one auto-related and the other non-auto-related — constitute concurrent causes of an accident, is the insured covered under both his homeowner's policy and his automobile liability policy, or is coverage limited to the automobile policy? State Farm Insurance Company (State Farm), the...

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