Freeman v. Boland

The question here is whether an infant or minor wbo hires a horse and buggy to drive to a particular place, and who, having got them under the hiring, drives beyond the place or in another direction, is liable in trover for the conversion. We think he is. There are cases in which infancy has been held to be a good defence to an action ex delicto for tort committed under contract or in making it. But that is not this case. The act here complained of was committed, not under the contract, but by abandoning it; the bailment being thus determined.

The contract cannot avail if the infant goes…