# Silesky Ex Rel. Silesky v. Kelman

> Supreme Court of Minnesota · September 27, 1968 · 281 Minn. 431

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9850658

## Case

- **Full name:** James Silesky, by Ralph Silesky, His Father and Natural Guardian, and Another v. Bernice K. Kelman and Others
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Minnesota
- **Decided:** September 27, 1968
- **Citations:** 281 Minn. 431; 161 N.W.2d 631; 1968 Minn. LEXIS 1026
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Peterson
- **Judges:** Nelson, Peterson, Rogosheske, Sheran
- **Cited by:** 76 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating “[t]he court may modify the common law, adopting such of its principles as are applicable and rejecting such others as are inapplicable.”

## Opinion text

Peterson, Justice
(concurring specially).
I concur because the policy of abrogating family immunity was decided in Balts v. Balts, 273 Minn. 419 , 142 N. W. (2d) 66 . I am unable to distinguish an action by a child against a parent from one by a parent against a child.

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