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ELSWORTH v. BEECH AIRCRAFT CORP.

Docket No. L.A. 31838.

37 Cal.3d 540 (1984)

691 P.2d 630

208 Cal. Rptr. 874

DORIS ELSWORTH et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. BEECH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Defendant and Appellant. JO ANN MIRO et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. BEECH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

December 17, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Morris, Polich & Purdy, Landon Morris, Robert S. Wolfe, Gerald P. Schneeweis, Walter J. Lipsman, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Robert Forgnone for Defendant and Appellant.

Magana, Cathcart, McCarthy & Pierry, Daniel C. Cathcart, Deborah Mitzenmacher, James F. Boccardo, Edward J. Niland and Stanley A. Ibler, Jr., for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

OPINION

MOSK, J.

Section 669 of the Evidence Code sets forth the doctrine commonly called negligence per se. It provides that negligence of a person is presumed if he violated a statute or regulation of a public entity, if the injury resulted from an occurrence that the regulation was designed to prevent, and if the person injured was within the class for whose protection the regulation...

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