WESTERN PIONEER INS. CO. v. ESTATE OF TAIRA

Docket No. 6670.

136 Cal.App.3d 174 (1982)

185 Cal. Rptr. 887

WESTERN PIONEER INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. ESTATE OF EUGENE H. TAIRA et al., Defendants and Respondents; THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

September 29, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Michael Franchetti, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Willard A. Shank, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Marvin Goldsmith, Assistant Attorney General, Seward L. Andrews and Stephen J. Egan, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Appellant.

Sandell, Young & St. Louis, David J. St. Louis, Paul R. Hager and Brad B. Geery for Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

HAMMER, J.*

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

Two state parole agents, Eugene Taira, driver, and Roy Longmire, passenger, were killed when a state owned 1974 Plymouth driven by Taira collided with a vehicle being driven by one Booker Woods. There was evidence that both Taira and Longmire were under the influence of alcohol. It was established that both parole agents were, at the time of...

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