Furman v. . Van Sise

The appellant presents but a single question for the judgment of this court, and that is upon the right of the plaintiff to maintain the action. The action itself is an anomaly in many of its aspects, and, if a wise public policy demands its preservation, discreet legislation could do much by so limiting and regulating it as to make the real purpose and object more consistent with the technical ground upon which it rests, and upon which alone it can be sustained, and declaring by whom, and under what circumstances, it may be brought.

In maintaining the action, the relation of parent and child…