Douberly v. Okefenokee Rural Electric Membership Corp.

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• finding that, since the appellees were not liable for injuries to the appellant, they were not liable to appellant’s wife for any loss of consortium attributable to those injuries
• The court held that the wife's derivative loss-of-consortium action was barred as a result of a judgment against her husband in his personal-injury action.
• “One spouse’s right of action for the loss of the other’s society or consortium is a derivative one, stemming from the right of the other.”
• “One spouse’s right of action for the loss of the other’s society or consortium is a derivative one, stemming from the right of the other.”
• because there was evidence that logger’s employer had knowledge of the location and existence of power line that injured him, the landowner had no duty to warn the logger

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