Goldman v. Cohen

The defendant demurs to the complaint, which seeks recovery by a wife for the loss she sustained as a wife by the injury to her husband from the negligence of the defendant in the management of a horse. Her loss is that which usually occurs to *337a wife from the illness of a husband in the deprivation of support and consortium, and the need of her personal care for him during his sickness. No case is cited where the wife recovered upon such a claim; and the absence of precedent where such demands might have been numerous, if sustained by the law, goes far to the belief that such negligence has…