Rodriguez v. Hamilton Prototypes, Inc. CA2/1
In April 2014, Raul Rodriguez (Rodriguez), while helping his friend, Raymond Cazares (Cazares) repair a rooftop air conditioning unit, lost his balance and tumbled off a wooden pallet attached to a forklift, and fell to his death. Rodriguez’s wife and sons—Antoinette Rodriguez, Julian Rodriguez, Richard Gastelum, and Joseph Gastelum (Plaintiffs)—initiated a wrongful death action against a number of defendants, including Cazares, who was operating the forklift at the time of Rodriguez’s fall, and Hamilton Prototypes, Inc. (Hamilton), Cazares’s landlord. Against Hamilton, Plaintiffs asserted two causes of action: negligence and premises liability. The trial court granted Hamilton summary judgment, finding, inter alia, that Hamilton did not owe a duty to Rodriguez.
On appeal, Plaintiffs argue that under Rowland v. Christian (1968) 69 Cal.2d 108 (Rowland), Hamilton, as Cazares’s landlord, owed a duty to Rodriguez, which Hamilton breached. We disagree and, accordingly, aff
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