Gamble

This is an application for a writ of mandate to be directed to the superior court of the county of Alameda and Honorable Joseph S. Koford, one of the judges thereof, commanding said court and judge to entertain and pass upon the merits of a certain action pending in said court, numbered 54,504, and entitled “George Gamble, Plaintiff, vs. Helen Angus and White Gulch Mining Co., a Corporation, Defendant, ’ ’ and also commanding the Industrial Accident Commission of the state of California and the members thereof to stay execution upon a certain award and the judgment entered thereon in a certain proceeding instituted by said Helen Angus before said commission, fixing at the sum of five thousand dollars the liability of the said White Gulch Mining Company, a corporation, for the death of her husband as an employee of said corporation.

The facts upon which the petitioner relies for the relief sought in this application are briefly these: Wm. Angus was prior to October 30, 1914, the president and superintendent of the White Gulch Mining Company, of which the Pacific Coast Casualty Company was the insurance carrier. On said last-named date said William Angus met with an accident while…