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Becker v. IRM Corp., 698 P.2d 116 (1985)

Citation
Becker v. IRM Corp., 698 P.2d 116 (1985)
Parent Document
Becker v. IRM Corp., 698 P.2d 116 (1985)
Jurisdiction
California (state)
Effective Date
1985-04-29

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*474 But foreseeability does not require that prior identical or even similar events must have occurred. (Kwaitkowski v. Superior Trading Co. (1981) 123 Cal. App.3d 324, 329 [176 Cal. Rptr. 494].) As noted in Weirum v. RKO General, Inc., supra, 15 Cal.3d 40, 47: "`The mere fact that a particular kind of [an] accident has not happened before does not ... show that such accident is one which might not reasonably have been anticipated.'" Appellant's accident cannot be characterized as unforeseeable simply because it was the first of its kind at the apartment complex.