Court Opinion

ID: 9649183
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 14:44:16.297836+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:00:29.906493
License: Public Domain

MASSEY, Chief Justice
(concurring).
I concur in the result.
However, I am persuaded on equitable principles, particularly in respect to right to invoke equity in order to afford a remedy when to withhold relief would be unconscionable.
We are not troubled by a complication which might have resulted had the plaintiff’s parents, at some time prior to her birth, treated or attempted to treat her injuries as part of the personal injuries of the mother.
I believe that plaintiff’s right to enforce a cause of action came into existence at the moment of her birth although the event giving rise thereto occurred at an earlier time. The matter of plaintiff’s viability as a foetus at the time of the event resulting in her damages would be wholly immaterial.