Saala v. McFarland

Plaintiff Esther Saala appeals from a summary judgment in favor of respondent Maurine McFarland in an action to recover for personal injuries sustained when struck by defendant’s automobile on a parking lot maintained by the parties’ common employer. Even though plaintiff properly received workmen’s compensation benefits since her injury was one “arising out of and in the course of the employment” (Lab. Code, § 3600), summary judgment must be reversed because the trial court erred in concluding that the provisions of section 3601 of that code barred any recovery from defendant coemployee in…