Court Opinion

ID: 9448378
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 23:33:59.282798+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:24.372149
License: Public Domain

CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge
(concurring) .
On the record here, I am convinced the California appellate courts would sustain the decision of the trial court. Were I on the highest court of California, which I shall never be, I would not vote to sustain the finding of an “accident.” (I have no other trouble with the case.) Also, I am a little influenced by Williams v. Carolina Life Insurance Co., 348 U.S. 802, 75 S.Ct. 30, 99 L.Ed. 633, and by Johnson v. Union Pacific, 352 U.S. 957, 77 S.Ct. 359, 1 L.Ed.2d 316. Counsel for appellant, as I, can readily distinguish these two cases from the Harrington case. Nonetheless, they reveal an approach which I think might prevail on certiorari were we to reverse the district court here.
Reluctantly, I concur.