344 A.2d 275 | Conn. Super. Ct. | 1975
The defendants Gilormine demur to the seventh count of the complaint by a wife for the medical expense of her injured husband on the grounds that General Statutes §
There does not appear to be any reported local precedent. The Gilormines' reliance on Foran v.Carangelo,
While there was no action at common law for wrongful death, that was not the case with medical expense. Saunders v. Schultz,
In light of the above holding which allows a wife a cause of action for her husband's medical expense absent an express enabling statute, General Statutes §
On the ground of the wife's common-law right of action, the demurrer is accordingly overruled.