Parks v. Parks

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Benjamin R. Jones,

The principal question raised upon these appeals is whether an unemancipated minor child1 can maintain an action against her parent to recover damages for negligence arising from the parent’s operation of a motor vehicle.

Karen Ann Parks, then a child less than six months of age, on June 5, 1952 was a guest passenger in an automobile owned by her father, Luther F. Parks, and *289operated by her mother, Helen Parks. An accident occurred2 as the result of which the minor child allegedly received injuries resulting in total and permanent physical and mental…