Clem v. Brown

Defendant has filed a motion to strike the words from plaintiff wife’s alleged second cause of action reading “she has lost his services and consortium.”

As plaintiff husband is suing for his own loss of earnings and he is duty bound to support his wife insofar as he is able, the motion is sustained as to the words “services and”.

The loss of consortium is, however, a different thing. There is no doubt that the law in Ohio has been that every husband has always enjoyed the benefit of an action for the loss of the consortium of his wife, whether that loss has been caused by negligent or…