Young

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of plaintiff and against the defendant for the sum of . three thousand dollars, damages claimed to have been suffered by the plaintiff through the death of her son, a minor of the age of eighteen years, caused by the alleged negligence of the defendant.

The following are the facts of the case: The defendant is a corporation, and was at the time of the accident which caused the death of the youth, engaged in the lumber business, owning a sawmill and conducting logging operations at or in the vicinity of a place known as Damon Mill, in the county of Fresno. In connection with these activities the defendant was, during the month of April, 1903, occupied in constructing a chute for conveying logs along the mountain side to its mill, and had employed in this particular work three gangs of men doing separate details of the work, each embracing several workmen under their own foreman, and all under a general foreman named William McLeod, who was one of several general foremen in the diversified activities of the defendant, and these in their turn were under a Mr. Fitzpatrick, who was known as the woods superintendent, while above the latter was…