 When the death of one is caused by the wrongful act or omission of another, 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...  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 - 1875 - 870 pages
...circumstances of the case may to them seem just." (Code of Civ. Proc. \ 377, [1872].) Indiana — " When the death of one is caused by the wrongful act...another, the personal representatives of the former may With the exception of the statutes of California, and perhaps Iowa, which we shall hereafter notice,... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 558 pages
...one of the Courts of Common Pleas of Indiana, under a statute of that State, which provides " that when the death of one is caused by the wrongful act...if the former might have maintained an action, had be lived, against the hitter for an injury for the same act or omission." The complaint in the action... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 748 pages
...one of the courts of common pleas of Indiana, under a statute of that State, which provides, " that when the death of one is caused by the wrongful act...the latter, if the former might have maintained an actiont had he lived, against the latter for an injury for the same act or omission." The complaint... | |
 | David Rorer - Conflict of laws - 1879 - 470 pages
...enable him to more easily pay for the result of his own wrong. . The Indiana statute declares that when the death of one is caused by the wrongful act...maintained an action had he lived, against the latter for the same act or omission. The action must be commenced within two years. The damages cannot exceed... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 2268 pages
...Rodman v. Railway Co., 65 Kan. 645, 70 Pac. 642, 59 LRA 704, the language of the Code, § 422, is : "When the death of one is caused by the wrongful act...latter, if the former might have maintained an action bad he lived against the latter for an injury for the same act or omission. The action most be commenced... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 2096 pages
...defendants in error. In the year 1808 the legislature of the state of Kansas enacted the following statute: "When the death of one is caused by the wrongful act...another, the personal representatives of the former »my maintain an action therefor ngainst t ho latter, if the former might have maintained an action... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 1980 pages
...the statute of this state, (section 367, Or. Civ. Code,) which provides : "When the death of a person is caused by the wrongful act or omission of another,...representatives of the former may maintain an action at law therefor against the latter, if the former might have maintained an action, had he lived, against... | |
 | Chauncey F. Black, Samuel B. Smith - Constitutional history - 1881 - 556 pages
...one of the Courts of Common Pleas of Indiana, under a statute of that State, which provides " that when the death of one is caused by the wrongful act or omission of another, the personal repsentatives of the former may maintain an action therefor against the latter, if the former might... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - Bar associations - 1889 - 1162 pages
...Act, as it had passed the English Parliament. Our act of 1851 is in these words : " That when death is caused by the wrongful act or omission of another, the personal representative of the former may maintain an action against the latter, if the former might have maintained... | |
 | Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - District courts - 1882 - 718 pages
...under the statute of this state (Or. Civ. Code, sec. 367), which provides: "When the death of a person is caused by the wrongful act or omission of another,...representatives of the former may maintain an action at law therefor against the latter, if the former might have maintained an action, had he lived, against... | |
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