Christie v. Maxwell

How courts have described this case

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• acknowledging, however, while interpreting a statutory provision, unfairness of allowing plaintiff wife 100% recovery on her consortium claim where husband was 62.5% negligent
• 62.5 percent contributory negligence of husband does not reduce wife’s damages for loss of consortium
• wife who claims loss of consortium is an individual with separate legal rights which arise independently of her identity as a member of the marital community

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).