Green Ex Rel. Green v. Green

Plaintiff’s appeal challenges the correctness of the ruling of the court below upon two points:

1. Can an infant maintain an action against ber father for support?

2. And, if so, may she haye an allowance for counsel fees ?

The first question must be answered “Tes” and tbe second “No.”

1. It is held in Lynn Sanders and J. D. Sanders, by Their Next Friend, W. J. Pratt, v. R. M. Sanders, 161 N. C., 319: “There can be no controversy that the father is under a legal as well as a moral duty to support his infant children (Walker v. Crowder, 37 N. C., 487), and, if he has the ability to do so, whether…