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Cleveland State Law Review

1971

Negligence

Discipline

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Wife's Action For Loss Of Consortium, Fred Weisman Jan 1971

Wife's Action For Loss Of Consortium, Fred Weisman

Cleveland State Law Review

The recent Ohio Supreme Court ruling in Clouston v. Remlinger Oldsmobile Cadillac Inc. reversed a rule which had existed in Ohio for over fifty years. Ohio has now been added to the growing list of states which allow to a wife an action for damages for loss of consortium arising from negligent injury to her husband.


Contributory Negligence Of Very Young Children, James B. Wilkens Jan 1971

Contributory Negligence Of Very Young Children, James B. Wilkens

Cleveland State Law Review

If in backing your car out of a driveway you look to only one side as you approach the sidewalk, and strike and injure a pedestrian approaching from the other side, who had been so engrossed in conversation with a companion as not to have cast even a glance up the driveway, your liability for his injuries might well depend upon his age. The standard of care required (in most circumstances) of normal adults (and corporations) for the protection of themselves and of others is that they take such care as ordinary prudent persons would take in the circumstances. Little, …