Wycough v. Flint Knit Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• eliminating interspousal tort immunity in personal injury case because \[a] maxim of the common law (and of the ages for that matter) is when the reason for a rule ceases the rule itself ceases\
• approving cases from other states permitting recovery against employers of family members based on such family members’ negligence as employees, even though intra-family immunities protected the employees themselves from liability.
• child injured while passenger on bus owned and operated by her father, no parental immunity because injuries occasioned in the performance of employment duties, not in the parental relation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).