Shepherd v. Consumers Cooperative Association

DALTON, Judge.

This cause, originally assigned to Division Two of this Court, was docketed for hearing at the January Session, 1964, but, after briefs were filed, the cause was transferred on the Court’s own motion, without opinion, to Court en Banc, where it was subsequently argued and submitted.

The action is by a wife for $50,000 damages for loss of consortium caused by the alleged negligent injury of her husband by the defendants on February 19, 1960, as the result of an automobile collision. The action was instituted in the Circuit Court of Clay County on April 16, 1963.

The trial court…