Legal Opinion
Brainard v. Cotner
California Court of Appeal
Decided June 30, 1976No. Civ. 47287PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
HASTINGS, J.
This is an appeal by plaintiff-appellant Harry W. Brainard (Brainard) from a judgment on a verdict in favor of defendant-respondent Georgia Cotner (Cotner).
Statement of Facts
On many of the material issues, the facts are in dispute. We begin by stating the facts that are undisputed, with a follow-up of the facts that are in dispute.
The undisputed facts: Brainard (an attorney at law), sometime between 6:30 and 6:45 p.m. on August 25, 1969, visited the Chimney- sweep bar in the San Fernando Valley. He sat down at the bar next to Cotner and her friend Linda Stacey (now deceased…
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