Legal Opinion
Kronenbitter v. Washburn Wire Co.
New York Supreme Court
Decided February 13, 1957PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMatthew M. Levy, J.
It may well be that — in these enlightened times of legal equality between the sexes, and the recognized matrimonial and biological fact that the plaintiff’s loss of an injured spouse’s society may be felt as keenly by the plaintiff in a case where the mate is a male as where the spouse is a female — there is “no logic to the contention that a husband may sue for loss of consortium, but a wife may not where the injury caused by the third party is merely the result of negligence.” (Colden, J., in Passalacqua v. Draper, 199 Misc. 827, 830.) And it seems to be the recent trend in a number of…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Woods v. LancetNew York Court of Appeals · 1951
- Hitaffer v. Argonne Co., IncCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1950
- Acuff v. SchmitSupreme Court of Iowa · 1956
- Brown v. Georgia-Tennessee Coaches, Inc.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 1953
- Nickel v. Hardware Mutual Casualty Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1955
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Russell v. BooksNew York Supreme Court · 1959
- People v. GrantNew York Court of General Session of the Peace · 1958
- Dorfman v. SchoenfeldNew York Supreme Court · 1960
- Kronenbitter v. Washburn Wire Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1957