Baird v. Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railroad

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The court is urged to reverse its position that a wife may not maintain an action to recover damages for loss or impairment of her husband’s consortium caused by negligence of another party.

The particular case is a suit filed by Mrs. Martha Lillian Baird against the Cincinnati, N. O. & T. P. R. Co., charging that by the defendant’s negligence in operating its train at a public crossing, the plaintiff’s husband, Harrison Baird, was “totally incapacitated from working and was permanently injured and placed in extreme financial difficulties” ; that by reason thereof she,…