Schreiner v. Fruit

How courts have described this case

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• creating rule of mandatory joinder of actions for loss of spousal consortium with the injured party’s damages action based on considerations of judicial economy and fear of double recovery
• to grant men but not women the right to sue for loss of consortium would be unconstitutional
• to grant men but not women the right to sue for loss of consortium would be unconstitutional
• \[To] reduce[] the chances of double recovery [and in] consideration[] of judicial economy ... joinder appears to be a practical and fair solution and in our view mandatory.\
• recognition of wife’s right to sue for loss of consortium; compulsory joinder of claims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).