Industrial Indemnity Co. v. Golden State Co.

I dissent.

The reasoning and the conclusion reached by the majority and concurring opinions are shocking to both my sense of justice and my legal concepts. If I am not mistaken this case will be appropriately classified in the annals of jurisprudence with other “crimes in ink.” It is obvious to my mind and I think it should be to any unbiased person that if this court should apply the law of the case to the undisputed factual background as disclosed by the record the inevitable result would be a reversal of the judgment of the trial court with directions to retry the case in accordance with…