 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 to recover damages in respect thereof...  The Federal Reporter - Page 4021903Full view - About this book
 | Edward Lillie Pierce - Railroad law - 1881 - 684 pages
...persons killed by accidents." (August 2«, 18415, 9 & 10 Victoria, c. 93.) " That whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, anil the act, neglect, or default is suchas would (if death liad not ensued) have entitled the party... | |
 | Wisconsin. Railroad Commissioners' Department - Railroad law - 1882 - 406 pages
...WRONGFUL ACT, NEGLECT OR DEFAULT. SECTION 4255. Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by a wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would, if death hid not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect... | |
 | Wisconsin Railroad Commissioner Department - Railroad law - 1882 - 422 pages
...WRONGFUL ACT, NEGLECT OR DEFAULT. SECTION 4255. Whenever the death of a person shall be caused *> ^ a •wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such— M would, if death hid not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maint Äin an action and recover... | |
 | Edmond Robert Turner - Agency (Law) - 1882 - 210 pages
...Authority of the same, causing sent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this any Person Act, Neglect, or Default, and the Act, Neglect, or Default is such as Neglect, *c., That whensoever the Death of a Person shall be caused by wrongful JJjJ™], would (if... | |
 | Sir John Macdonell - Gt. Brit. Laws, Statutes, etc - 1883 - 792 pages
...compensating the Familiei of Persons killed by Accident*." Section 1 enacts " That whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect,...the act, neglect, or default is such as would (if deatli had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in... | |
 | John Indermaur - Common law - 1883 - 604 pages
...288, 321. See also now the Employers' Liability Act, 1880, 43 & 44 Viet c. 42, pott, pp. 378-380. 374 neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the person injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof,... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1883 - 760 pages
...has obtained this writ of error. The suit is based on section 5, c. 103, Code, p. 725 (ed. 1891) : " Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default," etc. — the West Virginia form of the Lord Campbell Act. The declaration contains three counts. The... | |
 | West Virginia - Law - 1884 - 994 pages
...the property be sold, for the sale thereof. 4. No action of replevin shall be hereafter brought. 5. 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 maintain an action to recover damages in respect thereof;... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 782 pages
...of, or damage to, any estate of or by his decedent. CHAPTER CIII. OF ACTIONS FOR INJURIES. SEC. 5. 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 maintain an action to recover damages in respect thereof;... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Herbert Francis Manisty, Charles Francis Cagney - Legal maxims - 1884 - 1078 pages
...occasioned the death of another ; but by sect. 1 of that statute it is enacted, that " whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect,...neglect, or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain au action, and recover damages in respect thereof... | |
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