Dora Sove v. William Otis Smith, Frank Miller and Rose Miller

O’SULLIVAN, Circuit Judge.

This was an action by plaintiff-appellant, Dora Sove, for loss of consortium arising from injuries suffered by her husband, Charles Sove, in an automobile accident. A verdict for defendant was directed upon a holding that as a matter of law plaintiff’s husband had been guilty of contributory negligence. We previously reversed a District Court summary judgment which had held that a wife’s action for loss of consortium had to be prosecuted with her husband’s action for damages. We there held that the wife had a separate and independent cause of action for such loss,…