Shockley Ex Rel. Shockley v. Prier

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting the proposition that wrongful death statutes should be construed narrowly because they are in derogation of the common law
• parent may maintain action for loss of aid, comfort, society and companionship of an injured minor child against a negligent tortfeasor
• parent may maintain action for loss of child’s consortium “provided, and on condition, that the parent’s cause of action is combined with that of the child for the child’s personal injuries.”
• “it is as much our responsibility, as the legislature’s, to make changes in the law, if the common-law rule no longer fits the social realities of the present day”
• “A father has traditionally had actions for abduction and seduction of his child . . . founded upon an analogy with a master’s action for enticement of his servant.”
• measure of damages includes loss of companionship of a minor child during his minority

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).