... 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 for an injury for the same act or omission. The action must be commenced within... Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of ... - Page 598by 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 - 1861Full view - About this book
| Indiana. General Assembly. Senate - Indiana - 1881 - 1254 pages
...striking out all after the word "years,'' and inserting the following: " The damages can not exceed ten thousand dollars, and must inure to the exclusive...distributed in the same manner as personal property of the deceased." Which was adopted. Section adopted as amended. Mr. Leeper moved that the Senate adjourn.... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 1174 pages
...Kansas and Indiana are identical with ours, except that damages are allowed to the extent of iflO,000, and must inure to the exclusive benefit of the widow and children, if any, or next of kin. Mr. Justice Brewer, in Hulbert v. City of Topeka, 34 Fed. 510, referring to the Kansas statute, says... | |
| Law - 1884 - 1022 pages
...act or omission. The action must be commenced within two years. The damages can not exceed 810,000 and must inure to the exclusive benefit of the widow and children if any, or the next of kin, to bo distributed in the same manner as personal property of the deceased." In the... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1180 pages
...death of a person, caused by the wrongful act or omission of another, the damages recoverable Inured "to the exclusive benefit of the widow and children, if any, or next of kin," etc. The only change made by the amendatory act of 1899, supra, was by adding the words "or widower... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1150 pages
...representative of deceased, authorized by Нет. St. 1894, § 285 (Rev. St 1881, % 284), in which the damages inure to the exclusive benefit of the widow and children, if any, or the next of kin, the petition must show that deceased left wife and children, or next of kin. Appeal... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 956 pages
...same act or omission. The action must be commenced within two years. The damages cannot exceed ten thousand dollars, and must inure to the exclusive benefit of the widow or children, if any, or next of kin, to be distributed in the same manner as personal property of the... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 898 pages
...for an injury to his ward, the damages shall inure to the benefit of the ward:" 2 R. 8. 33. " Sec. 784. When the death of one is caused by the wrongful...distributed in the same manner as personal property of the deceased:" 2 RS 205. Personal property, it may be remarked, of the deceased, in certain contingencies,... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 968 pages
...act or omission. The action must be commenced within two years. The damages can not exceed $10,000, and must inure to the exclusive benefit of the widow...distributed in the same manner as personal property of the deceased." Also, " Every railroad company organized, or doing business in this State, shall be liable... | |
| Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1886 - 780 pages
...personal representatives of the deceased, and the action is prosecuted in his name; but the damages must inure to the exclusive benefit of the widow and children, if any, or next of kin, and therefore the action is, in effect, prosecuted for their benefit. If there were no wife, children,... | |
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