Smith v. Tri-State Culvert Manufacturing Co.

Clark, Judge.

Is a wife whose husband is injured by a tort for which defendant admits liability entitled to a verdict in some amount for loss of consortium? That question confronts this court in these two cases which arose out of a collision between a truck owned by defendants and a car in which the husbands of the two plaintiffs were riding.

There were two separate suits and two different trials with both complaints being limited to claims for loss of consortium. By coincidence each plaintiff bears the surname of Smith. In each case defendant acknowledged being at fault but contested any…