Hathaway v. Siskiyou Union High School District

This action was brought by plaintiff for damages for the death of his minor son, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of Betty Lou Riley in the operation of an automobile.

A demurrer to plaintiff’s original complaint having been sustained, he alleged in count one of an amended complaint that defendant Ferris was, at all times and in the matters alleged in the complaint, “acting within the course and scope of his agency and authority as agent of the school district and principal of the Weed High School”; that on April 24, 1942, defendant Riley, “in the course and scope of her agency,…