MATTISON v. KIRK

85-125, 85-329 and 85-325.

497 So.2d 120 (1986)

Dorothy L. MATTISON and Gary Mattison, as Co-administrators of the Estate of Woodrow W. Mattison, deceased v. Charles KIRK, et al. Charles KIRK, et al. v. Dorothy L. MATTISON.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

October 3, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Delaine Mountain and Vickie E. House, Tuscaloosa, for appellants/cross-appellees.

Alan T. Rogers and James A. Bradford of Balch & Bingham, Birmingham, for appellees/cross-appellants.


JONES, Justice.

These consolidated appeals and cross-appeals present four issues: 1) Whether a claim for loss of consortium can be based on a common law marriage; 2) whether a pending action, claiming loss of consortium, survives the death of the injured spouse; 3) whether a worker's personal representative can maintain a wrongful death action against the co-employees of the deceased; and 4) whether, because of this Court's holding in Slagle v. Parker,

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