Unger v. San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railways

ST. SURE, J., Concurring.

I concur in the affirmance of the judgment.

Lord Mansfield is said to have given this advice to a friend newly appointed to a colonial judgeship: “Never give reasons for your decision; your judgments will very probably be right, but your reasons will almost certainly be wrong.” The supreme court of this state expressed a similar thought when it said: “With the process of reasoning by which the court reached its conclusion we have nothing to do. That may have been erroneous and the ruling correct.” (Chabot v. Tucker, 39 Cal. 434; In re Kingsley, 93 Cal. 576 [29 Pac.…