Marti P. Tessier v. H.S. Anderson Trucking Co.

TATE, Circuit Judge:

In this Louisiana diversity case, the plaintiff wife seeks recovery for non-pecuniary damages (“loss of consortium, loss of services, and loss of society”) resulting from a non-fatal vehicular collision in 1981 causing injury to her husband through the alleged fault of the defendant Company. She bases her claim upon her analysis of Louisiana codal articles in the light of civilian methodology, contending that under the proper interpretation of Louisiana’s civil-law-based Civil Code articles 2315 and 1934(3), this type of damages has always been recoverable. She contends…