Ennis v. Donovan

How courts have described this case

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• third party claim against husband by defendant in negligence action, brought by the husband, as administrator of wife’s estate
• “We can only repeat that if it be desirable to permit a married woman, under certain circumstances, to sue her husband in tort, this authorization should emanate from the Legislature, not from the courts”
• “We can only repeat that if it be desirable to permit a married woman, under certain circumstances, to sue her husband in tort, this authorization should emanate from the Legislature, not from the courts.”
• however, it is to be noted that the doctrine was criticized in Lusby v. Lusby, 283 Md. 334, 390 A.2d 77 (1978) in which the court refused to extend interspousal immunity to include intentional torts perpetrated on wife by her husband

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).