BANORES v. AUSTIN

No. 70-144.

240 So.2d 850 (1970)

Georgia H. BANORES, Appellant, v. Alfred S. AUSTIN and R.A. Austin, D/B/a Austin Development Company, and Roy R. Horst, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

November 13, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Cetti, Tampa, and John S. Burton, Plant City, for appellant.

Donald A. Pleasants, of Shackleford, Farrior, Stallings & Evans, Tampa, for appellees.


MANN, Judge.

Appellant argues that the denial to a wife of damages for loss of consortium while our law allows them to a similarly deprived husband violates the equal protection clause of our federal constitution, U.S. Const. Amend. XIV, and Section 4 of the Declaration of Rights of the Florida constitutions, F.S.A. As a legal matter, Wilson v. Redding, Fla.App. 1962, 145 So.2d 252, and Ripley v. Ewell, Fla. 1952,

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