Death by Wrongful Act: A Treatise on the Law Peculiar to Actions for Injuries Resulting in Death, Including the Text of the Statutes and an Analytical Table of Their Provisions |
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... liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in such commerce , or , in case of the death of such employé , to his or her personal representative , for the benefit of the surviving widow or ...
... liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in such commerce , or , in case of the death of such employé , to his or her personal representative , for the benefit of the surviving widow or ...
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Page 488 - Be it therefore enacted . . . that whensoever 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 and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 513 - ... in every such action the jury may give such damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such death to the parties respectively for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought...
Page 532 - ... provided by law in relation to the distribution of personal property left by persons dying intestate...
Page 499 - A father, or in case of his death or desertion of his family, the mother, may maintain...
Page 121 - Territory and another, or between any such Territory or territories and any State or states or the District of Columbia, or with foreign nations, or between the District of Columbia and any State or states or foreign nations, is hereby declared illegal.
Page 123 - Columbia and any of the states or territories and any foreign nation or nations shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in such commerce, or in case of the death of such employee to his or her personal representative...
Page 529 - ... death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Page 543 - 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 an injury for the same act or omission.
Page 526 - When the death of a person, not being a minor, is caused by the wrongful act or neglect of another, his heirs or personal representatives may maintain an action for damages against the person causing the death...
Page 123 - ... for such injury or death resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier...