Distinctive Printing & Packaging Co. v. Cox

Plaintiff-appellant, Distinctive Printing and Packaging Company, seeks to recover $178,495.94 in damages from defendants-appellees, Verlyn R. Cox; his wife, Martha L. Cox; and Susana Hernandez, under the provisions of the parental liability statute, Neb. Rev. Stat. § 43-801 (Reissue 1988), *848asserting the defendants’ respective resident minor sons willfully and intentionally set fire to plaintiff’s property. So far as is relevant to this appeal, the defendants demurred on the ground that plaintiff’s petition failed to state a cause of action because the statute is unconstitutional on state and…