Maloney v. Daley

The plaintiff in this negligence action brings this suit both as an individual and as the administratrix of her husband’s estate. In two counts of her complaint, the plaintiff seeks recovery under the pertinent provisions of our Wrongful Death Act, G. L. 1956 (1969 Reenactment) ch. 7 of tit. 10. In the complaint’s third and final count, the plaintiff seeks damages for the mental anguish she sustained as she watched her husband become engulfed in the flames that ultimately caused his decease. The defendants are before us on appeal from the denial by a justice of the Superior Court of their…