Lastowski v. Norge Coin-O-Matic, Inc.

Justice Hopkins,

in his dissent states: “ Transposed to the parent-child relationship in the family, the rule of liability logically should therefore be whether the parent acted as a reasonable parent would have acted under the circumstances. TMs was the rule adopted in California (Gibson v. Gibson, 3 Cal. 3d 914, supra), which, in my opinion, best fits the factual and legal patterns implicit in the family structure.” (P. 142)

I can think of no better answer to that contention than to quote from Judge Fuld’s dissent in Badigian v. Badigian (9 N Y 2d 472, 481, supra), the sense of wMch was…