McAdam v. Wrisley

At the close of the evidence, the Washington Superior Court directed a defendants’ verdict. In form, the judgment order ran in the singular and was captioned only against the defendant James Wrisley. The mistake is obviously purely clerical and should be corrected on remand; it can be nothing else because the only claim against the defendant Mildred Wrisley was on a respondeat superior basis. Nor can there be any question but that the defendants were entitled to a directed verdict against the plaintiff Beatrice McAdam, because her only claim was for loss of her husband’s consortium, for which…