Corbridge v. M. Morrin and Son, Inc.

ELLETT, Justice:

Plaintiffs appeal from a summary judgment rendered at the close of a pretrial conference. Dorlene Corbridge sued for injuries received when she fell into an unlighted excavation in a highway, and her husband, Dale, sued for lost wages he claims to have sustained when he ceased his employment to provide for his children while his wife was in the hospital and for sums of money paid to baby sitters during his wife’s convalescence.

We believe the motion was properly granted as to the husband because of the language of Section 30-2-4, U.C.A.1953, which is as follows:

A wife may…