Espe

A left-hand turn accident in which the host driver of one vehicle was a minor, Kirk O. Salisbury, produced: (1) an action by a guest against the driver; (2) an action by the guest against Warren Salisbury, the driver’s father; (3) an action against the driver of the other vehicle. The jury found in favor of the driver of the other vehicle, and there is no appeal from the judgment based on the verdict. Nonsuit was granted in favor of the minor driver and his father. Plaintiff appeals.

Action Against the Minor

Kirk O. Salisbury was 14 years of age at the time of the accident. He had no previous driving experience, except that at one time in the presence of his father and mother he had driven on an airplane landing strip on a private ranch. Before the accident he had never driven on a public street or road. He did not have any type of operator’s license. He had not asked permission to drive. On the day of the accident he took the keys to his father’s car from the father’s dresser. Pie intended to drive back to the house where he had been at a party the night before. Kirk drove the car about 3 miles from his home to the scene of the accident. He picked up plaintiff, Richard Espe,…