California Court of Appeal

In case alleging landlord's negligence for hiring an apartment manager known to have violent propensities, carry guns, use drugs, and threaten tenants, and who shot plaintiff while working for defendant, summary judgment in favor of defendant is reversed where defendant failed to meet his burden to show a lack of triable issues, and did not even purport to show that plaintiff could not prove the manager shot him while working for defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/11/2006
• Published 11/13/2006

Judges

• MORRISON, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jay-Allen Eisen, Sacramento, Kenneth N. Meleyco, Stockton, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• La Follette, Johnson, De Haas, Fesler, Silberberg & Ames, Barry Vogel and John R. Haluck, Sacramento, for Defendants and Respondents.