SIXKILLER v. SUMMERS

No. 55649.

680 P.2d 360 (1984)

Sharon SIXKILLER, Individually, and as Mother and Next Friend of David Summers, a Minor, Appellants, v. Billy J. SUMMERS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

April 17, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol Seacat, Hopkins, Warner & King, Inc., Tulsa, for appellants.

Roger R. Williams, Joseph F. Clark, Jr., Williams & Clark, Tulsa, for appellee.


ALMA D. WILSON, Justice.

We have again before us the issue of the scope and applicability of the doctrine of parental immunity in tort actions. Just recently this Court in Unah v. Martin, 676 P.2d 1366 (Okl. 1984), abrogated the rule of parental inmmunity in the limited context of vehicular negligence suits. There we held that an unemancipated minor child could maintain an action in tort and recover against his parents to the...

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