Hughes v. Hudelson

AILSHIE, Chief Justice.

This is an action for damages brought by llene Hughes, appellant, as surviving wife, and as guardian of two surviving children, of Marvin G. Hughes:

Late in the evening of February 22, 1945, respondent, R. W. Hudelson, with Roy Agle, left Gooding to go to Ketchum, in Hudelson’s 1940 Chevrolet pickup truck. They were traveling on highway No. 24 from Gooding to Shoshone. About four or five miles east of Gooding, in response to a signal from a pedestrian (later identified as Marvin G. Hughes), respondent stopped his vehicle and consented to Hughes riding in the rear of the…