Keast v. Santa Ysabel Gold Mining Co.

Plaintiffs, the heirs at law of Alfred H. Keast, sued defendant to recover damages for negligently causing his death. From the judgment which followed the verdict of the jury in their favor, and from the order denying its motion for a new trial, defendant appeals.

Alfred H. Keast was a miner in the .employ of defendant, and at the time of his death was at work with a companion at the bottom of a shaft. By order of the foreman a timber was sent down the shaft, to be landed at the five-hundred-foot level. While the workmen at this point were engaged in hauling this timber from the shaft onto the…