Courts may sometimes be sympathetic to an adult who has suffered losses due to a minor who misrepresented his age.How so?

State law today is fairly evenly divided among those states that take the position that the minor who misrepresents his age will be estopped from asserting his infancy as a defense and those that will allow a minor to disaffirm regardless of his misrepresentation of age.Among the states that allow disaffirmance despite the minor's misrepresentation,most hold the disaffirming minor responsible for the losses suffered by the adult,either by allowing the adult to counterclaim against the minor for the tort of deceit or by requiring the minor to reimburse the adult for use or depreciation of his property.