Opinion

Grant v. McAuliffe

  • 41 Cal. 2d 859
  • 264 P.2d 944
  • 42 A.L.R. 2d 1162
  • 1953 Cal. LEXIS 336
Court
California Supreme Court
Filed
Dec 23, 1953
Status
Published
Author
Edmonds
On the bench
Traynor, Schauer, Edmonds, Gibson, Shenk, Carter, Spence
Cited by
90 cases

where, in automobile accident inArizona between California cars and California residents, the California Supreme Court avoided the lex loci delicti rule by viewing the problem as of the administration of decedents’ estate and within the law of the forum

How later courts described this case

  • where, in automobile accident inArizona between California cars and California residents, the California Supreme Court avoided the lex loci delicti rule by viewing the problem as of the administration of decedents’ estate and within the law of the forum
  • survival determined by law of state where estate administered
  • domicile controls decedent’s estates
  • opinion by Justice Traynor

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

EDMONDS, J.

-I concur in the conclusion that the order granting the defendant’s motion to abate should be affirmed.

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