Legal Opinion
Suter v. Leonard
California Court of Appeal
Decided March 5, 1975No. Civ. 43967PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
FLEMING, J.
Plaintiff Jodie Lynn Suter, a minor, appeals the judgment dismissing for failure to state a cause of action her complaint for $150,000 damages for loss of the “society, care, protection, support and affection of her mother.”
Plaintiff alleged that her mother, Barbara Suter (who is seeking $2,000,000 damages for herself in the same lawsuit) was injured in a 1971 automobile accident caused by defendants’ negligence and as a result incurred physical injuries that left her disabled and unable to care for plaintiff. Until the accident the daughter, born in 1962 and now in the…
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