Vlasak v. Vlasak
Supreme Court of Minnesota
1Opinion of the Court
Stone, Justice.
• In this action by daughter against father, the former had judgment for damages resulting from personal injuries, sustained, so the jury found, because of defendant’s negligence. For defendant it is urged that plaintiff at the time of the accident was an unemancipated minor and in consequence without right to sue her father for his personal tort. So far as the question of emancipation depends upon facts, we have no present concern with it.
At the time of the accident, December 31, 1936, plaintiff was 20 years and 4 days of age. Under the then law she was not a minor.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- Anderson v. PetersonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1887
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