 | 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 - 1902 - 806 pages
...a person by the wrongful act of another,' under certain circumstances named, the wrong-doer ' shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, if the death be caused in this State.' The only condition of the right of action in the former case... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1852 - 722 pages
...the death of any person shall be caused by any wrongful act or neglect, the party who would have been liable if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages, notwith» Baker ««. Bolton, 1 Camp., 498. t Carey and wife v». Berkshire EK Co., 1 Cashing,... | |
 | 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
...shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, • • • the person who * * * would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages. * * * "Every such action shall be brought by and in the names of the personal representatives... | |
 | Michigan - 1855 - 770 pages
...shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default of any railroad company or its agents, and the y for act, neglect or default is such as would (if death...liable if death had not ensued, shall be liable to ac action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall... | |
 | North Carolina - 1855 - 710 pages
...respect thereof, if death had not ensued, then and in every such case, the person who would have been liable, if death had not ensued, shall be liable to...notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and How brought, although the death shall have boon caused under such circumstances as amount in law to... | |
 | William Tidd - 1856 - 838 pages
...action and recover damages, in respect thereof; then, and in every such case, the person who, or the corporation which, would have been liable if death...although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to murder in the first or second degree, or manslaughter. Sect. 2. Action... | |
 | Edward Vaughan Williams - 1856 - 966 pages
...damages in respect thereof, ing the death then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to...although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony. II. "Every such action shall be for the benefit of the action... | |
 | Michigan, Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1857 - 998 pages
...action, and recover damages, in respect thereof, then and in every such case, the person who, or the corporation which •would have been liable, if death...although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony. (5004.) SEC. 2. Every such action shall be brought by, andty... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Thomas Durfee - 1857 - 484 pages
...and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued, shall be liable to...although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony." By section 2, it is further enacted, " That every such action... | |
 | Wisconsin - 1857 - 186 pages
...case, the person who, or the corporation which would have been liable, if death had noten. sned, shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding...death of the person injured, and although the death may have been occasioned under such circumstances as constitute an indictable offence ; Provi.. ded,... | |
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... death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages,... 
