HASTINGS BY HASTINGS v. Hastings

The opinion of the court was delivered by

This appeal presents the single clear-cut question whether an unemancipated minor child may maintain a cause of action against her father for personal injuries caused by his simple negligence in the driving of an automobile in which she was a passenger when he was insured by a policy of liability insurance obligating his insurer to pay all sums for which he was legally obligated as damages because of injury to others arising out of the ownership, maintenance and use of the car.

Hall, J.

The child was four years of age at the time of the mishap and had…