INDUSTRIAL RISK INSURERS v. RUST ENGINEERING CO.

Docket No. A051674.

232 Cal.App.3d 1038 (1991)

283 Cal. Rptr. 873

INDUSTRIAL RISK INSURERS, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. THE RUST ENGINEERING COMPANY, Defendant and Respondent.

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

July 29, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, Andrew W. Horstman, William P. Linhoff, Jr., and Frank S. Towner for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Cooper, White & Cooper, John P. Makin, Patricia A. Perkins and Anthony W. Hawthorne for Defendant and Respondent.


[Opinion certified for partial publication.*]

OPINION

PERLEY, J.

In this case we hold that the 10-year time limit Code of Civil Procedure section 337.15 places on suits for latent defects in improvements to real property commences when the defendant's work on the improvement is substantially completed, rather than when the improvement itself is substantially completed. The trial court here granted...

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