Court Opinion

ID: 9675953
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 05:10:39.719741+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:41.637199
License: Public Domain

CONCURRING OPINION
HUGHES, Justice.
The wrongful conduct of Miss Moore and Mr. Bramlett in the Canal Zone resulting in her pregnancy and the birth of John David Bramlett in Dallas, Texas, would have, under the statutes of the Canal Zone, given Miss Moore, from the time of such pregnancy and if then a resident of the Canal Zone, a cause of action against Mr. Bramlett for the maintenance of such minor until it reached the age of 21 years. Such statutes also gave the minor, irrespective of the residency of either the father or mother, a cause of action against its father for its maintenance.
I do not believe that the minor has a cause of action under the Canal Zone statutes maintainable in Texas against Mr. Bramlett for while the tort, the wrongful conduct of the parties from which injury and damages resulted to this child, occurred in the Canal Zone such injuries and damages were and are being sustained in Texas. From the following statement of the law, taken from 16 Am.Jur.2d Sec. 72, p. 113, I am of the opinion that, since Mr. Bram-lett is not liable under the Texas law for the support of his son David, he cannot be held liable under the Canal Zone Code:
“Where the issue is the choice between the law of the place where an allegedly wrongful act or omission took place and the law of the place where the injury or harm was sustained, the general rule is that the place of the tort, within the contemplation of the rule that the law of the place of the tort or wrong governs liability and other substantive matters, is the place of the injury or harm.”
Nor do I believe that Miss Moore has a cause of action against Mr. Bramlett under the Canal Zone Code for the reason that she is not suing as a pregnant woman and she did not deliver the child in the Canal Zone.
I concur in the decision of the Court.