... 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
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 884 pages
...personal estate. But this statute expressly prohibits that disposition. It declares that the damages " must inure to the exclusive benefit of the widow and children, if any." To hold that these damages could be diverted to the benefit of any one else would be to fly in the... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 1064 pages
...of Kansas and Indiana are identical with ours, except that damages are allowed to the extent of ten thousand dollars, and must inure to the exclusive...of the widow and children, if any, or next of kin. Mr. Justice Brewer, in Hurlbert v. Topeka, 34 Fed. Rep. 510, referring to tHe Kansas statute, says... | |
| John Milton Gardner, Walter James Eagle - Employers' liability - 1901 - 836 pages
...same act or omission. This action must be commenced within two years. The damages cannot exceed ten thousand dollars and must inure to the exclusive benefit...distributed in the same manner as personal property of the deceased." The title of the Indiana act of March 4, 1893, known as the "Employers' Liability Act,"... | |
| Indiana. Appellate Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 802 pages
...act or omission. The action must be commenced within two years. The damages cannot exceed $10,000, and must inure to the exclusive benefit of the widow...distributed in the same manner as personal property of the deceased." The next enactment upon this subject is §267 Burns 1894, which gives a right of action... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1108 pages
...be commenced within two years. The damages cannot exceed ten thousand dollars, and must inure to Hie exclusive benefit of the widow and children, if any,...distributed in the same manner as personal property of the deceased." It appeared from the complaint that plaintiff's testator lived more than a year and a day... | |
| Indiana. Appellate Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 812 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...children, if any, or next of kin, to be distributed as personal property of the deceased." It is provided in our employers liability act, referred to above:... | |
| Seymour Dwight Thompson - Negligence - 1905 - 1626 pages
...for the death of his Intestate, under Burns' Rev. Ind. St 1901. § 285, providing that the . damages must Inure to the exclusive benefit of the widow and children, if any, or next of kin, of deceased, it appeared that deceased was thirtytwo years of age and left as his sole heirs at law... | |
| Texas - Criminal law - 1901 - 1776 pages
...same act or omission. The action shall be commenced within two years. The damages can not exceed ten thousand dollars, and must inure to the exclusive benefit of the widow, or widower (as the case may be), and children, if any, or next of kin, to be distributed in the same... | |
| Indiana - 1901 - 1792 pages
...same act or omission. The action shall be commenced within two years. The damages can not exceed ten thousand dollars, and must inure to the exclusive benefit of the widow, or widower (as the case may be), and children, if any, or next of kin, to be distributed in the same... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1026 pages
...years. The damages cannot exceed tea thousand dollars, and must inure to the exclusive benefit of tLc widow and children, if any, or next of kin, to be...distributed in the same manner as personal property of the deceased." The title of the Indiana act of March 4, 1893, known as the "employers' liability act,"... | |
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