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CHAMBERLIN v. SMITH

Docket No. 39650.

72 Cal.App.3d 835 (1977)

140 Cal. Rptr. 493

RICHARD F. CHAMBERLIN et al., Plaintiffs, v. MILO WHITNEY SMITH et al., Defendants; RESERVE INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Interveners and Respondents; MISSION INSURANCE COMPANY, Intervener and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

August 25, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Ray C. Bennett, Howard M. Fields and Bennett & Fields for Intervener and Appellant.

Boornazian, King & Schulze, David J. Garthe, Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon, Samuel D. Davis and David W. Gordon for Interveners and Respondents.

OPINION

CHAPMAN (R.D.), J.*

We are asked, in this appeal, to decide which of three insurance companies must bear a loss occasioned by a claim of negligence on the part of an attorney.

We need not decide whether the attorney was in fact negligent, because the insurance companies have settled the claim.

Richard and Barbara Chamberlin (hereinafter Chamberlins) and Harold E. Paul and Harold...

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