Patusco v. Prince MacAroni, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a wife may recover medical expenses from a tort-feasor despite the fact that her husband, and not she, is responsible for their payment
• holding that a wife may recover medical expenses from a tort-feasor despite the fact that her husband, and not she, is responsible for their payment
• \It must be kept in mind that under the existing policy in our State a wife may not sue her husband as a tortfeasor. * * *\
• \`[T]he husband's consortium claim ... will fail if the wife was contributorily negligent.'\
• per quod award reduced by percentage of negligence attributable to injured spouse
• per quod claim of husband defeated by wife's contributory negligence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).