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THOMPSON v. THOMPSON
Supreme Court of United States (1910) | 218 U.S. 611; 31 S.Ct. 111; 54 L.Ed. 1180
TL;DR: A wife sued her husband for assault and battery. The Supreme Court held that the common law doctrine of interspousal immunity barred the suit, finding that a statute allowing women to sue for torts did not explicitly authorize suits between spouses.
Legal Significance: This case established a strong precedent for interspousal tort immunity, holding that Married Women's Property Acts do not abrogate the common law bar on such suits unless the statute does so with explicit, unmistakable language.