Fugate Ex Rel. Stroup v. Fugate

582 S.W.2d 663 (1979)

Denise FUGATE, a minor by her next friend, Carl Edward Stroup, Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.

Harold FUGATE, Defendant-Respondent.

No. 60357.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

June 19, 1979.

Keith Brown, James R. Bickel, Nevada, Mo., for plaintiff-appellant.

Laurence H. Flanigan, Carthage, Mo., for defendant-respondent.

BARDGETT, Judge.

The question on this appeal is whether or not the doctrine of parental immunity bars an action brought by an unemancipated minor child, aged 10, against her father, seeking damages for the negligent wrongful death of her mother in a case where the…