no cause of action for wrongful death of unborn child because prospective pecuniary loss resulting from such death too spectulative
How later courts described this case
- no cause of action for wrongful death of unborn child because prospective pecuniary loss resulting from such death too spectulative
- considering present-day needs and experience, pecuniary loss, should include loss within the broad definition of society and companionship
- interpreting Minn. Stat. sec. 573.02
- wrongful death statute is remedial in character and “it is the court’s duty to construe it liberally in light of current social conditions”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Dell, Chief Justice
(dissenting).
I dissent.