Seymour v. Rossman

Opinion by

Me. Chief Justice Jones,

This matter arose from a trespass action based upon medical and dental malpractice proximately causing the death of Robert T. Seymour on February 2, 1966. Decedent was survived by his wife, H. Shaw Seymour, and a minor daughter of a prior marriage, Marcijean Seymour. Marcijean Seymour was sixteen and one-half years old on the date of the death of Robert T. Seymour. H. Shaw Seymour was decedent’s wife of three years.1

After her appointment as administratrix, the surviving spouse brought suit under the Wrongful Death Act of 1855.2 The complaint set forth the…