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HOPKINS v. BLANCO

224 Pa.Super. 116 (1973)

Hopkins, Appellant, v. Blanco.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

March 27, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Beasley, with him Keith S. Erbstein, and Beasley, Hewson, Casey, Kraft & Colleran, for appellant.

Francis E. Shields, with him Victor L. Drexel, and Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, for Gumersindo Blanco, M.D. and Alberto Adam, M.D., appellees.

Robert R. Reeder, with him John J. Dautrich, and White and Williams, for Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, appellee.

Before WRIGHT, P.J., WATKINS, JACOBS, HOFFMAN, SPAULDING, CERCONE, and PACKEL, JJ.

OPINION BY HOFFMAN, J., March 27, 1973:

Appellant contends that Article I, section 27 of the Pennsylvania Constitution compels the courts to extend the right to consortium to women who have long been denied that right under the common law.1

Consortium has normally been defined in terms of a husband's right to be secure in his marital relationship: "`For an injury to the wife, either intentionally or negligently caused, which deprives...

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