What are the elements of a tort where a plaintiff fails to establish one or two elements?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Minidis v. Marsh, B271218, B276559 (Cal. App. 2018):

necessary elements of the tort" (Sangster v. Paetkau (1998) 68 Cal.App.4th 151, 164), a failure to establish one element is necessarily fatal.

B. THE MINIDISES ESTABLISHED A FAVORABLE TERMINATION ON THE MERITS AGAINST DOUSETTE

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