Turner v. Consolidated Underwriters

If prescription1 can run against a minor whose parents are deceased and for whom a tutor has been appointed, why should not prescription also run- against a minor whose parents are living and whose father occupies the place of and has the power of a tutor?

Is the orphan to be less favored by the-law than other children?

The majority rests its holding upon a. Court of Appeal decision which reasons, that if the parents are living and decline to invoke the act on behalf of the minor it is the same as if the minor had no par'ent and to hold otherwise would be to-make the minor’s rights depend…