Glean v. Smith

Deen, Judge.

1. Where liability of a parent for the tort of a child is based on the parental relationship, the imputation of negligence must stem from an agency or master-and-servant relationship. Bell v. Adams, 111 Ga. App. 819 (1) (143 SE2d 413), holding that a parent was not liable where the 17-year-old son intentionally shot another with the father’s riñe, which had been left in a place accessible to him, in the absence of allegations showing the parent should have foreseen that the son, if in possession of the weapon, would commit a criminal act.

2. Insofar as the petition alleges…