Hiott v. Contracting Services

Gregory, Justice:

This appeal is from an order staying an action by the appellant wife, Ethel Hiott, for loss of consortium. We reverse and remand.

Appellant’s husband, Marshall H. Hiott, while employed as a painting subcontractor for respondent Contracting Services, a partnership, fell from the second story porch of respondent Elizabeth Agnew Luke’s house in Charleston *633on May 1, 1978. He sustained injuries rendering him a paraplegic. •

The husband instituted a personal injury action against the respondents. When the trial judge directed a verdict for all respondents, the husband appealed but…