 Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by a wrongful act, neglect or default of another, and the act, neglect or default is such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action...  The Southwestern Reporter - Page 3241915Full view - About this book
 | District of Columbia. Supreme Court (1863-1936), Franklin Hubbell Mackey - 1888
...death of a person shall be caused by the wrongful act, neglect or default of any person or corporation, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured, or, if she be a married woman, her husband, either separately... | |
 | John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland - 1889
...damages ; l but in England, and most of the United States, statutes exist giving a right of action whenever the death of a person shall be caused by a wrongful act, neglect, or default, such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party to maintain an action, and recover... | |
 | 1889
...person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default of any railroad company, or its agents, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) entitle the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof; then... | |
 | 1890
...person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default of any railroad company, or its agents, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued, entitle the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then,... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1890
...section i " that whenever the death of a person snail be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, if death K^"^,"! • had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action, and recover damages... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1891
...person injured, or after his death by his executor or administrator." Section 5225 provides that " whenever the death of a person shall be caused by a wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick, Arthur George Sedgwick - 1891
...statutes. In England, the 9 & 10 Viet., c. 93, commonly known as Lord Campbell's act, provides, that whenever the death of a person shall be caused by a wrongful act, and which would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action, the... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1893
...upon this question, is as follows : " That whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by the wrongful act, neglect, or default of another, and the act, neglect, or default is such as xvould (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover... | |
 | Francis Buchanan Tiffany - 1893 - 396 pages
...commenced within two years after the death of such deceased person. WISCONSIN. Rev. St. 1878. Sea 4255. Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by a wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default la Bach as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party... | |
 | Horace Gay Wood - 1893 - 1041 pages
...which survive. — Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action to recover damages in respect thereof... | |
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