Anderson v. Gailey

BAKES, Justice.

This is a wrongful death action brought by the plaintiff appellants Martin Anderson and Bernice Boyer in which they alleged that their son, the decedent Richard Anderson, died as a result of the reckless and negligent conduct of the defendant respondent George Gailey. It was uncontested that Richard Anderson died while he was in a 285-foot deep drill shaft that Gailey was digging as an irrigation well and that Gailey had engaged Anderson to descend into the drill shaft to make repairs to Gailey’s broken equipment at the bottom of the shaft. The trial centered upon three…