 | 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 - 1897 - 824 pages
...477. The statutes of Kansas and Indiana are substantially the same. Each provides that the damages must inure to the exclusive benefit of the widow and children, if any, or the next of kin, to be distributed in the same manner as personal property of the deceased. 2. Rut... | |
 | District of Columbia - 1857 - 788 pages
...personal representatives. Such action must be commenced within two years, and the damages recovered shall inure to the exclusive benefit of the widow and children, if any, of the deceased, to be distributed in the same manner as his personal property. CHAPTER 121. OF THE... | |
 | 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 - 1861 - 700 pages
...same act or omission. The action must be commenced within two years. The damages cannot exceed five thousand dollars, and must inure to the exclusive...distributed in the same manner as personal property of the deceased.1' 2 RS p. 205. Personal property, it may be remarked, of the deceased. in certain contingencies,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1880 - 730 pages
...statute, the damages recovered of a railroad company for causing the death of a person through negligence must inure to the exclusive benefit of the widow and children, if any, and next of kin, to be distributed, etc. PitlsOpinion of the Court. burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway... | |
 | 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 - 1862 - 754 pages
...maintain an action therefor against the latter, if the former might have maintained an action, had he lived, against the latter, for an injury for the same act or omission." The former, had he lived, could not have maintained an • action, in the case at bar, against the latter... | |
 | 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
...maintain an action therefor against the latter, if the former might have maintained action, had he lived, against the latter, for an injury for the same...action must be commenced within two years. The damages can not exceed $5,000, and must inure to the exclusive benefit of the widow and children, or next of... | |
 | 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
...maintain an action therefor against the latter, if the former might have maintained an action, had he lived, against the latter for an injury for the same act or omission. Tho action must be commenced within two years. The damages cannot exceed §5,000, and must inure to... | |
 | 1892 - 554 pages
...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, if any, or next of kin, lo be distributed in the same manner as personal property of the deceased." Held, that the wife could... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1901 - 704 pages
...maintain an action therefor against the latter, if the former might have maintained an action had he lived against the latter for an injury for the same act or omission. This action must be commenced within two years. The damages cannot exceed ten thousand dollars and... | |
 | 1875 - 870 pages
...at any time within one year thereafter, if the former could have maintained an action had he Hved, against the latter for an injury for the same act or omission, had it failed to produce death. (Rev. Code Ala. 1867,12297.) The damages recovered in such action cannot... | |
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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 against the latter, if the former might have maintained an action, had he lived, against the latter... 
