Courtney v. Apple

For the jury function I have a profound respect. That, plus the inexorable logic of my Brother’s opinion, led me to a tentative acceptance thereof. But the case would not leave me. My misgivings first arose with the thought that if this had been a prize bull, negligently killed on the highway, without negligence on the part of its owner, the owner could have collected his full damages. But with respect to this little boy negligently killed on the highway, without negligence on the *238part of Ms parents, a jury verdict that the father is entitled to no damages is to be permitted to stand,…