Greene v. Rothschild

The respondent petitioned for rehearing, contending that the court had disregarded the doctrine *6of “law of the case” and that this doctrine dictated that the judgment on the second trial should be affirmed. The petition was granted.

In reversing the judgment of the trial court in our en banc opinion, ante p. 1, 402 P.2d 356, we overruled the case of Greene v. Rothschild, 60 Wn.2d 508, 374 P.2d 566 (1962), which was an earlier appeal of the same case, insofar as it impliedly held that the exoneration of an agent, for whose negligence it is sought to hold his principal liable, does not exonerate…