Victorville

Amanda Laabs was injured when the car in which she was riding

collided with another car in an intersection and then hit a light pole owned by Southern California Edison Company (SCE). Laabs sued various parties, including the City of Victorville (the City), the County of San Bernardino (the County), and SCE.

The present opinion deals with consolidated appeals from judgments following (1) the trial court’s granting of SCE’s motion for judgment on the pleadings as to Laabs’s second amended complaint and (2) the trial court’s order sustaining, without leave to amend, the City’s demurrer to SCE’s first amended cross-complaint.

We first address the ruling on SCE’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, which we reverse. We then address and affirm the trial court’s order sustaining the City’s demurrer without leave to amend.

I. SCE’S MOTION FOR JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS

A. Introduction

This is Laabs’s fourth appeal, and the second involving SCE. In the first two appeals we affirmed summary judgments in favor of the County and the City. In the third appeal, we reversed summary judgment in favor of SCE. (Laabs v. Southern California Edison Co. (2009) 175 Cal.App.4th 1260,…