California State Automobile Ass'n v. Jacobson

Opinion

DRAPER, P. J.

This appeal raises an issue not previously determined in this state—whether a stepfather can maintain an action for damages for the wrongful death of his stepdaughter.

The only record here is the judgment roll, but appellant’s brief makes a statement of facts in which respondent concurs. Geraldine Gehrt was bom in 1923. Her father died in 1936, and later that year her mother married appellant, who never adopted Geraldine. For some years, she lived with her mother and stepfather. The latter provided her care and-support, and put her through nursing school. About 1957,…