 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...  Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan - Page 159by Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1886Full view - About this book
 | Law - 1846 - 700 pages
...action against such first-mentioned person in any of Her Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person so causing such death shall be liable to an action for damages resulting therefrom, notwithstanding... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts, Frederick Augustus Carrington, Andrew Valentine Kirwan - Law reports, digests, etc - 1850 - 1168 pages
...party has not always such self-possession as to attend to the warning and get out of the way. You 731 neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default...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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 638 pages
...answerable in damages for the injury u caused by him : — • It is Enacted, I. That whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect,...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... | |
 | Law - 1847 - 578 pages
...killed by Accidents." By the first section of that statute it is enacted, ' ' that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect,...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1847 - 638 pages
...default, and that the act, neglect or default is such 20 as would (if 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 such Inspector shall report thereon accordingly to C ne of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State,... | |
 | Law - 1848 - 558 pages
...should be answerable in damages for the injury so caused by him, enacts, " That whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect,...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... | |
 | Joshua Williams - Conveyancing - 1848 - 402 pages
...be caused by such wrongful act, neglect or default, as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, the wrong-doer shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured,... | |
 | Canada - Law - 1848 - 944 pages
...for death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and reco- any ^on ver damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have ™used by any been liable if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages,... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Carriers - 1849 - 808 pages
...statute 9 and 10 Viet. c. 93. By section 1 of that act, it is enacted, that " whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect,...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... | |
 | Commerce - 1849 - 716 pages
...or default, and the act, neglect, or default, is such as would (had death not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action, and recover damages in respect thereof, then the person who, or the corporation which, would have been liable, had death not ensued, shall be liable... | |
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