Bevis v. Armco Steel Corp.

Plaintiff’s assignment of error in this court describes her action as “a wife’s action for loss of’ consortium due to the defendant’s intentional, wrong*299ful, and malicious act.” Defendant apparently concedes that there was such a cause or right of action in this state at common law. See Flandermeyer v. Cooper, 85 Ohio St., 327, 98 N. E., 102, 40 L. R. A. (N. S.), 360, Ann. Cas. 1913A, 983.

From the allegations of the petition, it is clear that the injury, for which the plaintiff seeks damages, resulted entirely from an occupational disease of her husband which was occasioned in the course of…