Silverman v. Silverman

The plaintiff May Silverman is the wife of the defendant Abraham Silverman. While a passenger in her husband’s automobile, she sustained injuries as a result of the negligent operation of the car by the couple’s unemancipated minor son Irving. From a judgment in her favor against her husband, he has appealed. The principal question involved is whether the wife and mother has a cause of action against the husband and father under the family car doctrine for the tort of the unemancipated child even though she is precluded from recovering from the child. No reported cases upon this point have…