Josephine Miskunas v. Union Carbide Corporation

CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

In this diversity action, plaintiff sued to recover for damages resulting from injuries suffered by her husband, Edward Miskunas, on July 14, 1966. He was in one of defendant’s buildings in Kokomo, Indiana, when a Model 2-0-20 Burton Mixer was being used to blend certain materials, resulting in an explosion that inflicted severe burns on Mis-kunas. As a result of his injuries, plaintiff was allegedly deprived of her husband’s “society, services, companionship and consortium” for which she sought $200,000 in compensatory damages and $1,000,000 in exemplary and punitive…