Leach v. Farmer's Automobile Interinsurance Exchange

TAYLOR, Justice.

About 9:30 p. m. in the evening of December 12, 1946, George A. Davis, 16 years of age, was driving his father’s car about the streets of Fruitland in Payette County. With him were two companions. They were engaged in a “lark”, apparently playing “hide-and-seek” with other teenagers, and were driving with the lights off. While so being driven the car struck and injured a nine year old boy, Allen Leach. Davis and his companions did not stop, but having felt the jar, thinking they may have struck a “bump” or a “dog” they drove around the block and back to the point of impact.…