Costa v. Regents of University of California

This cause was before us on a prior occasion in which we entered judgment of affirmance (Cal.App.) 247 P.2d 21. Thereafter the Supreme Court filed its opinion in Zentz v. Coca Cola Bottling Co., 39 Cal.2d 436 [247 P.2d 344], treating the subject of the res ipsa loquitur doctrine. For that reason this court granted a rehearing for the express purpose of having further argument on the question of the application of that doctrine to this case.

In a reexamination of the record in the light of the Zentz case we are satisfied that the judgment must be reversed on that ground. All the other points…