BENTON v. AETNA CASUALTY & SURETY CO.

Docket No. 568.

241 Cal.App.2d 768 (1966)

50 Cal. Rptr. 824

FRED BENTON et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. THE AETNA CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY, Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

April 28, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben Curry for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

McCormick, Barstow, Sheppard, Coyle & Best and Hollis G. Best for Defendant and Respondent.


CONLEY, P.J.

One of the plaintiffs, Fred Benton, was engaged at the time specified in the complaint in the performance of various contracts involving earth-moving in the construction, principally, of roads and dams. He was associated in this work, in the manner afterwards discussed, with Fred Galante of Visalia. In the course of the construction of a dam in foothill territory, one of the workmen negligently started a fire; he did not succeed in extinguishing it, and...

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