Court Opinion

ID: 7436381
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 02:59:37.949503+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:22:32.317360
License: Public Domain

WALDEN, Judge
(dissenting) :
The basic question is whether a wife is entitled to be compensated for loss of consortium where her husband has been negligently injured by a defendant. Thus far in Florida such recovery has been denied. In light of the trends and present concepts of jurisprudence, I suggest that it is time for the proposition to be freshly reviewed and such damages allowed. This change would strike down an unreasonable and discriminatory classification by sex and afford wives the equal protection- of law. It would accord with the intendment of U. S. Const. Amend. XIV § 1, Fla.Const. art. 1, §§ 2, 9 (1968) F.S.A.; The Civil Rights Act, U.S.Code, tit. 42, chapter 21 and The Married Women’s Property Act, F.S.1967, Chapter 708, F.S.A. See Stein*191metz v. Dworkin Truck Lines, Inc., 1968, 16 Ohio Misc. 273, 242 N.E.2d 686; Millington v. Southeastern Elevator Co., Inc., 1968, 22 N.Y.2d 498, 293 N.Y.S.2d 305, 239 N.E.2d 897; and Hitaffer v. Argonne Co. Inc., 1950, 87 U.S.App.D.C. 57, 183 F.2d 811.
I do, therefore, dissent and would reverse the order dismissing the wife’s complaint with prejudice.