Wyatt v. Bernhoester

CRIST, Judge.

Case on abrogation of interspousal and parental immunities in tort.

Plaintiffs, wife and two minor children, filed suit against wife’s husband and minors’ father, alleging that husband-father was jointly negligent with another defendant in causing injuries’ to plaintiffs by reason of an automobile collision. The petition alleged that none of the claims exceeded the amount of insurance coverage available to the husband-father.

*131Husband-father filed a motion for summary judgment claiming the doctrines of interspousal immunity and parental immunity barred the plaintiffs’ cause of…