 That whenever 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...  Wisconsin Session Laws - Page 315by Wisconsin - 1937Full view - About this book
 | Michigan - Law - 1855 - 628 pages
...agents, and the t«iuhi!f for act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) entitle the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages, in respect thereof, then, and in every such case, the railroad corporation which would have been liable if death had not ensued,... | |
 | William Tidd - Civil procedure - 1856 - 838 pages
...recoverable for causing death. Be it enacted, &c., That whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default; and the act, neglect...action and recover damages, in respect thereof; then, and in every such case, the person who, or the corporation which, would have been liable if death had... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 724 pages
...1,) provides that the action may be maintained " whenever the death of a person shall he caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect...an action and recover damages in respect thereof," and devolves the liability upon those who would have been responsible if the injured party had Brown... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 572 pages
...injury so caused by him:" and it then enacts, "that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect,...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... | |
 | Michigan, Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Law - 1857 - 998 pages
...Representatives of the State of Michigan, Whenever the death tum^m ii« for of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect...action, and recover damages, in respect thereof, then and in every such case, the person who, or the corporation which •would have been liable, if death... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1858 - 616 pages
...Executors of EBENEZER WISWALL, deceased, and others. " Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect...action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case, the person who, or the corporation which would have been liable, if death had... | |
 | John Duer, New York (State). Superior Court (New York) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 754 pages
...compensation for causing death by wrongful act, neglect, or default." It provided in the first section, that " whenever the death of a person shall be caused by...neglect, or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to an action, then and in every such case, the person who,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Paxton Norman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1859 - 968 pages
...22).— The 9 & 10 Viet. c. 93, s. 1, enacts, " That whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect,...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... | |
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