... 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
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1038 pages
...true, the damages, not to exceed ten thousand dollars, inure to the benefit of the widow and children, or next of kin, to be distributed in the same manner as personal property of the deceased is distributed in that state. Bat the executor or administrator is the only person who can... | |
| Francis Buchanan Tiffany - Death by wrongful act - 1893 - 458 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 atid chldren, If any, or next of kin, to be distributed in the same manner as personal property of... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 910 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...distributed in the same manner as personal property of the deceased." It appeared from the complaint that plaintiffs testator lived more than a year and a day... | |
| Indiana, Harrison Burns - Law - 1894 - 1050 pages
...same act or omission. The action must be commenced within two years. 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. See section 5310. The action for damages for death, under this section, is wholly statutory,... | |
| Philemon Bliss - Civil procedure - 1894 - 858 pages
...kin generally, to be distributed like personal property, in Ohio by the jury. In Indiana the damages "inure to the exclusive benefit of the widow and children, if any, or next of kin, to be distributed," etc. In South Carolina the statute defines as beneficiaries "the wife, husband, parent, and children,"... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1032 pages
...of the deceased, or the nonappointment of a personal representative. Under both sections the damages must inure to the exclusive benefit of the widow and children, if any, or next of kin of the deceased. If section 422 had given the personal representative or administrator a cause of action... | |
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