BARKER v. LULL ENGINEERING CO.

Docket No. S.F. 23519.

20 Cal.3d 413 (1978)

573 P.2d 443

143 Cal. Rptr. 225

RAY P. BARKER, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. LULL ENGINEERING COMPANY, INC., et al., Defendants and Respondents; EMPLOYERS INSURANCE OF WAUSAU, Intervener and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

January 16, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Frank S. Hills for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Siegfried Hesse, Peter F. Elkind, Jewel, Boxer & Elkind, Robert E. Cartwright, Edward I. Pollock, Leroy Hersh, Stephen I. Zetterberg, Robert G. Beloud, Ned Good, David B. Baum, Arne Werchick and Leonard Sacks as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Shovlin & Babin, Norbert C. Babin, Bledsoe, Smith, Cathcart, Boyd & Eliot and Kenneth E. Nussbaum for Defendants and Respondents.

No appearance for Intervener and Respondent.


OPINION

TOBRINER, Acting C.J.

In August 1970, plaintiff Ray Barker was injured at a construction site at the University of California at Santa Cruz while operating a high-lift loader manufactured by defendant Lull Engineering Co. and leased to plaintiff's employer by defendant George M. Philpott Co., Inc. Claiming that his injuries were proximately caused, inter alia, by the alleged defective...

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