Legal Opinion

Vlasak v. Vlasak

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided January 20, 1939No. 32,041PublishedCited by 5 opinions

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.

At common…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Anderson v. PetersonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1887

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. United States v. IrvineSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
  2. Garber v. RobitshekSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1948
  3. Lundstrom v. MampleSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1939
  4. Choff v. SvendsenCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1963
  5. United States v. IrvineSupreme Court of the United States · 1994

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