State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Partridge

10 Cal.3d 94 (1973)

514 P.2d 123

109 Cal. Rptr. 811

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants,

v.

WAYNE E. PARTRIDGE et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Docket No. Sac. 7973.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

September 25, 1973.

COUNSEL

Rich, Fuidge, Dawson, Marsh, Morris, Sanbrook & Grove and Chester Morris for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Jones & Weldon, Charles R. Weldon and Leonard Sacks for Defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

TOBRINER, J.

The instant case presents a somewhat novel question of insurance coverage: when two negligent acts of an insured — one…