187 Iowa 603 | Iowa | 1919
-The plaintiff’s husband, while in the employ of the defendant, fell from a scaffold, sustaining injuries. from which he died, one hour later. The action is for damages for the loss of consortium for such space of one hour following the injury.
Without passing upon the legal question thus presented, it is enough to say that the damages for such a brief space of time would necessarily be nominal. We so held in Lane v. Steiniger, 174 Iowa 317, 319, find in Jacobson v. Fullerton, 181 Iowa 1195. We could not, therefore, reverse for the purpose of allowing nominal damages, even though the legal contention of plaintiff were sustained. We shall not, therefore, undertake to pass upon it.