Cody v. J. A. Dodds & Sons

This is an action at law for alleged negligence brought in behalf of an unemancipated minor child against a partnership as the sole defendant. The child’s father was a partner in defendant-partnership at the time of the accident. The petition charges negligence on the part of two partners and two employees of the partnership. None of the individual partners is made a party to this action. The father of the unemancipated minor is one of the partners and is one of the four persons alleged to have been negligent.

Defendant-partnership moved for judgment on the pleadings on the grounds that an…