 | Tennessee - 1852 - 824 pages
...certain cates, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by tlte General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That when the death of one is caused by the wrongful...representatives of the former may maintain an action against the latter, if the former might have maintained an action, had he lived, against the latter... | |
 | Tennessee - 1852 - 824 pages
...enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That when the death of one is caused by ae wrongful act or omission of another, the personal...representatives of the former may maintain an action against the latter, if the former might have maintain-' td an action, had he lived, against the latter... | |
 | District of Columbia - 1857 - 788 pages
...not so brought, it shall not survive, except in the case mentioned in the following section. SEC. 3. When the death of one is caused by the wrongful act...may maintain an action therefor against the latter and his personal representatives. Such action must be commenced within two years, and the damages recovered... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1860 - 642 pages
...repugnant section, to-wit, § 784, p. 205, of the same volume of the code. This latter section provides that when the death of one is caused by the wrongful...another, the personal representatives of the former may sue, in a case where such person might have sued for the wrongful act or omission, had it not caused... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1865 - 722 pages
...The right to sue, in this case, is founded on sec. 784 of the statute, 2 G. & iI. 330, which provides that, "when the death of one is caused by the wrongful...against the latter, if the former might have maintained action, had he lived, against the latter, for an injury for the same act or omission. The action must... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1867 - 610 pages
...of Swayne, did not exist at common law, but is based upon section 784, of the code, which provides that, " When the death of one is caused by the wrongful act or omission of another, the personal representative of the former may maintain an action therefor against the latter, if the former might... | |
 | 1892 - 554 pages
...of the Damage Act of that State. The Kansas statute provides that " when the death of one is cansed by the wrongful act or omission of another, the personal...representatives of the former may maintain an action therefor." " The damages cannot exceed $10,000, and must inure to the exclusive benefit of the widow and children,... | |
 | Colorado Territory - 1872 - 260 pages
...Territory: SECTION 1. When the death of any person is caused by the wrongful act, misconduct, negligence, or omission of another, the personal representatives...if the former might have maintained an action, had he'or she lived, against the latter for the same act, misconduct, negligence, or omission. Prowhcu... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1874 - 768 pages
...excepted. By the 2297th section of the Revised Code of Alabama it is declared : "When the death of a pereou is caused by the wrongful act, or omission, of another, the personal representative of the former may maintain an action against the latter at any time within one year... | |
 | 1875 - 870 pages
...circumstances of the case may to them seem just." (Code of Civ. Proc. \ 377, [1872].) Indiana — " When the death of one is caused by the wrongful act...another, the personal representatives of the former may With the exception of the statutes of California, and perhaps Iowa, which we shall hereafter notice,... | |
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When the death of one is caused by the wrongful act or omission of another, the personal representatives of the former may maintain an action therefor... 
