Case ID: idaho_79/html/0349-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

317 P.2d 340
    Orville HOFFMAN and Georgine Hoffman, husband and wife, the father and mother of William Byron Hoffman, a minor, State of Idaho, Walter C. Musgrave, State Insurance Manager, State of Idaho, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Roy BARKER and Lee Barker, husband and wife, Marion J. Hess, and/or Marion J. Hess Construction Company, Defendants-Respondents.
    No. 8581.
    Supreme Court of Idaho.
    Oct 31, 1957.
    T. Harold Lee, Rigby, for appellants.
    Holden & Holden, Albaugh, Bloem, Barnard & Smith, Idaho Falls, for respondents.
   PORTER, Justice.

This case is a companion case to No. 8580, entitled William Byron Hoffman v. Barker, 317 P.2d 335. The two cases were presented together to this court. The facts in the two cases are identical except that in this case the parents of the minor, William Byron Hoffman, are maintaining this action to recover damages suffered by them as the result of the injuries to their minor son.

In this action also the court sustained a general demurrer by respondent, Marion J. -Hess, and/or. Marion J. Hess. Construction Company, and entered a judgment of dismissal of the cause as against such respondent. Upon the reasoning and authority of the decision in .Case No. 8580, such judgment of dismissal is reversed and the cause remanded to the trial court with directions to re-instate such cause, overrule the general demurrer and to proceed further in the premises. Costs awarded to appellants as against respondent, Marion J. Hess, and/or Marion J. Hess Construction Company.

TAYLOR, SMITH and McQUADE, JJ., concur.

KEETON, Chief Justice

(dissenting).

For reasons stated in the dissenting opinion in Case No. 8580 I dissent. The judgment of dismissal should be affirmed. 
      
       79 Idaho 339.