Vale v. Brooks
Vale v. Brooks
Opinion of the Court
This is an action by a husband for loss of consortium. The wife had previously obtained a judgment
At oral argument plaintiff urged that the case should be reversed and remanded because the trial court submitted the issue of the wife’s contributory negligence to the jury. Plaintiff argued that Wolff v. Du Puis, supra, held that an action for loss of consortium is not a derivative action; therefore, the contributory negligence of the wife would not bar a loss of consortium action by the husband.
We do not decide this issue. The trial court’s action in this regard was not made the subject of an assignment of error. No transcript of the trial was filed; so the trial court’s instructions to the jury upon the issue of the wife’s contributory negligence are unknown.
Judgment affirmed.
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