Legal Opinion
Pascal v. Charley's Trucking Service, Inc.
District Court, Virgin Islands
Decided February 8, 1977No. Civ. No. 76/707PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChristian, Chief Judge
MEMORANDUM
In this action for personal injuries brought by her husband against the defendants, plaintiff Diane Pascal has undertaken to state a claim against the said defendants, seeking damages for loss of her husband’s consortium. Defendants resist her claim on the ground that at common law a wife had no such right of action, but the husband only; that the Restatement of Torts so provides; and that since, pursuant to Title 1, V.I.C. § 4 “[t]he rules of common law, as expressed in the Restatements of the law approved by the American Law Institute”, are “the rules of decision in the court of…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Reynolds v. SimsSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Frontiero v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Hitaffer v. Argonne Co., IncCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1950
- Krohn v. Richardson-Merrill, Inc.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1966
- Josephine Miskunas v. Union Carbide CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1968
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Hubschman v. Antilles Airboats, Inc.District Court, Virgin Islands · 1977
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