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DEEMS v. WESTERN MARYLAND RY.

[No. 362, September Term, 1966.]

247 Md. 95 (1967)

231 A.2d 514

DEEMS v. WESTERN MARYLAND RAILWAY COMPANY, ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for rehearing filed on June 30, 1967.

Denied July 12, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James G. Perry, with whom was Martin Moncarz on the brief for appellant.

Melvin J. Sykes, with whom were William C. Purnell, Rowland Posey and Paul M. Higinbothom on the brief for Western Maryland Railway Company, one of appellees; Clayton W. Daneker, with whom was Loring E. Hawes on the brief for The Pennsylvania Railroad Co., other appellee.

The cause was argued before HORNEY, MARBURY, OPPENHEIMER, McWILLIAMS and FINAN, JJ.

Denied July 12, 1967. Opinion modified.

OPPENHEIMER, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

For the first time in this State, the denial of a wife's right to sue for loss of her husband's consortium due to injuries received by him as the result of the defendant's negligence, is expressly challenged as a violation of the wife's rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution. In recent years, the wife's right...

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