Regalado

Regalado v. Callaghan

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Court of Appeal of CaliforniaSeptember 22, 2016D069647California7,407 words

Opinion

Opinion

Filed 9/16/16 Certified for Publication 9/22/16 (order attached)

COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

VICTOR M. REGALADO, D069647

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v. (Super. Ct. No. INC1203669)

JEFFREY M. CALLAGHAN,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Riverside County, David M.

Chapman, Judge. Affirmed.

Wood, Smith, Henning & Berman, R. Gregory Amundson and Christopher Perez;

Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, Robert A. Olson and Alana H. Rotter, for Defendant

and Appellant.

Thon Beck Vanni Callahan & Powell and Daniel P. Powell; Esner, Chang &

Boyer and Stuart B. Esner for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Jeffrey M. Callaghan hired Dunn's Designer Pools (Dunn's), a landscape and pool

contractor, to build a pool and spa at his home. Victor M. Regalado, a Dunn's employee, suffered injuries when he installed a propane fueled pool heater on Callaghan's property.

Regalado sued Callaghan for negligence and premises liability. The jury found

Callaghan was negligent and assigned 40…

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