Kelley v. Bruch

SPEAR, Justice.

This action was filed in the district court, Bannock County, by Edith and David Kelley to recover damages for the alleged wrongful death of the plaintiff wife’s 14-year-old son, Robert Wesley Smith, result ing from a collision involving an automobile owned and operated by Glen LeRoy Bruch and a bicycle ridden by the Smith boy. The accident took place on June 22, 1963 on U. S. Highway 91-191 North, approximately I1/2 miles west of the village of Inkom, between Inkom and Pocatello. The boy was riding his bicycle on the shoulder of the highway some 50 yards ahead of the car driven…