Pickering v. Stearns

Defendants Stearns are the parents of Ed Stearns, a minor, who, May 18, 1933, drove the family car, owned by defendants, from their home in Montesano to Patterson lake in Thurston county, for the purpose of conveying a party of young people to a school picnic. John Oldfield, Marie Forgey and Bethel Keyes, students at the Grays Harbor junior college in Aberdeen, desiring to attend the school picnic, each having the privilege of inviting a friend, were the moving spirits of the party. John Oldfield invited the plaintiff, Dorothy Pickering, as his guest; Ed Stearns having been invited by Marie…