Smith v. Ridgeway Chemicals, Inc.

Plaintiff Bobbie Smith brought a cause of action in negligence, breach of warranty and strict liability against Defendant Ridgeway Chemicals, Inc., and in the same Complaint brought a cause of action against Dr. Norman P. Khoury alleging medical malpractice. Sometime later her husband, Robert F. Smith, Jr., filed a Complaint against the same Defendants, alleging loss of consortium, upon the same grounds set forth in his wife’s causes of action. Both Defendants filed Answers denying liability and asserting the usual defenses.

The cases were consolidated for trial and for this appeal.

The judge…