 In a civil court the death of a human being could not be complained of as an injury, and in this case the damages as to the plaintiff's wife must stop with the period of her existence.  Atlantic Reporter - Page 3481902Full view - About this book
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1868 - 610 pages
...mind he had suffered on her account from the time of the accident to the moment of her dissolution." "In a civil court, the death of a human being could not be complained of as an injury, and the damages as to the plaintiff's wife must stop with the period of her existence." No authority... | |
 | Robert D. Handy, John H. Handy - 1855 - 638 pages
...case reported. In the latter year, Lord Ellenborough held in Baker vs. Bolton and others, 1 Camp. 493, "that in a civil court the death of a human being could not be complained of as an injury," and therefore the plaintiff's claim to damages for the loss of his wife, must stop with the period... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1859 - 616 pages
...to this particular feature of the ancient jurisprudence of the country ; but he lays down the broad proposition that, in a civil court, the death of a human being cannot be complained of as an injury. If it were necessary at this day to give a reason for this doctrine,... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1859 - 720 pages
...alluded to this peculiar feature of the ancient jurisprudence of the country ; but he lays down the broad proposition that in a civil court, the death of a human being cannot be complained of as an injury. If it was necessary at this day to give a reason for this doctrine,... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1872 - 790 pages
...the homicide of his wife. In Baker vs. Bolton, 1st Campbell's Reports, 493, Lord Ellenborough said, " In a civil Court, the death of a human being could not be complained of as an injury; and, in this case, the damages, as to the plaintiff's wife, must stop with the period of her existence."... | |
 | Conway Robinson - 1858 - 804 pages
...mind he had suffered on her account from the time of the accident till the moment of her dissolution. In a civil court the death of a human being could not be complained of as an injury, and in this case the damages as to the plaintiff's wife must stop with the period of her existence."... | |
 | 1898 - 562 pages
...loss of service* of a minor child who is Instantly killed. The court £llenborough said that) 'Inn civil court the death of a human being could not be complained of as an Injury.' In adhering to the broad principle thus announced, Plgott, I!., In Osborn v. Olllett (1873), LI'. 8... | |
 | 1875 - 722 pages
...delivering the opinion: " I must say, therefore, that Lord Ellenborough's unsupported nut prius declaration, that " in a civil court the death of a human being could not be complained of as an injury," opposed as it is to the expressed opinion of Comyn, (Comyn's Digest Trespass, b. 5) ; to the plainly... | |
 | Ohio. Superior Court (Cincinnati), Robert D. Handy, John H. Handy - 1877 - 694 pages
...case reported. In the latter year, Lord Ellenborough held, in Baker r Bolton and others, 1 Camp. 493, "that in a civil court the death of a human being could not be complained of as an injuiy." and therefore the plaintiff's claim to damages for the loss of his wifo must stop with the... | |
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