Hairston v. Broadwater

There seems need for a rationale of two fundamental upheavals worked in New York law by recent and significant high court cases. One allows family members to sue each other for negligence, the others allow one joint tort-feasor to charge another joint tort-feasor for contribution of his apportionate share of responsibility in causing an accident. Taken together, they affect a parent whose child is injured by a third party, under circumstances where the third party argues the parent himself is wholly or partially responsible for the happening, and should therefore bear at least part of the…