Kingman v. Dillard's, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the possibility of a different result does not establish that the result is clearly erroneous
• applying Missouri law and stating that a plaintiff “is not entitled to recover damages for conditions that are due entirely and wholly to previous disease or injuries”
• “No Missouri court has ever allowed a spouse to recover on a consortium claim for life-long professional nursing care.”
• “[W]e agree with Dillard’s that current Missouri law does not contemplate an unlimited consortium claim of the sort awarded to Calvin by the district court.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).