Court Opinion

ID: 9624012
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 06:48:40.74223+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:05:37.682532
License: Public Domain

Hill, J.
(concurring in the result)—I concur in the result because a violation of the anti-hitchhiking statute does not prevent the formation of a host-guest or licensor-licensee relationship. The result in Upchurch v. Hubbard, 29 Wn. (2d) 559, 188 P. (2d) 82, was correct; but I am now persuaded that the boy in that case was neither a guest nor a licensee, but a trespasser, and that Hubbard became liable for his death only because the boy’s youth placed a duty on Hubbard to prevent his trespassing.