Swartz v. United States Steel Corporation

*441HARWOOD, Justice.

In the proceedings below Mrs. Edna M. Swartz filed a suit against the United States Steel Corporation seeking damages for the loss of her husband’s consortium because of injuries resulting proximately from the alleged negligence of the Steel Company.

The trial court, on motion of the Steel Company, dismissed the plaintiff’s suit, as it was bound to do under the decision of this court in Smith v. United Construction Workers, 271 Ala. 42, 122 So.2d 153 (1960), wherein it was held that a wife has no cause of action under the common law of Alabama for the loss of her husband’s…