Deems v. Western Maryland Railway Co.

For the first time in this State, the denial of a wife’s right to sue for loss of her husband’s consortium due to injuries received by him as the result of the defendant’s negligence, is expressly challenged as a violation of the wife’s rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution. In recent years, the wife’s right of action for loss of consortium has been considered and reconsidered by a number of respected courts throughout the country and the subject has been discussed by many eminent authorities in textbooks and in law review articles.…