 | Vermont - Law - 1851 - 838 pages
...hereafter be caused by the" wrongful act, neglect, or default of any person, either natural or artificial, 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,... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 744 pages
...; How. Stat. §§ 8313, 8314), which is a general statute, and in its first section provides 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 maintain an action, and recover damages, in respect thereof,... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 806 pages
...the opinion of Mr. Justice HOOKER iii this case that the language of the section in question 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 maintain an action," etc., is to be construed as excluding... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1852 - 616 pages
...occasioned the death of another ; but by sect. 1 of that act, 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 an action, and recover damages in respect thereof,... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 824 pages
...to be administered within this State. Sections 8313 and 8314 of Howell's Annotated Statutes provide: "Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, • • • the person who * * * would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 808 pages
...the jury. Sections 3391 and 3392, How. Stat. pp. 869, 870, are as follows: " SECTION 3391. (§ 7). Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default of any railroad company, or its agents, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would (if death... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 776 pages
...•declaration." The statutes giving damages in cases like the present are as follows: How. Stat. § 3391. " Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default of &ny railroad company or its agents, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would (if death... | |
 | Ontario. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 572 pages
...case founded upon the provincial statute 10 & 11 Vic. ch. 6, which enacts that whensoeverthe death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, such as would (had death not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 722 pages
...act (Laws of 1847, p. 575, ch. 450) declares that 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 had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to an action ; then, and in every such case, the person who,... | |
 | Michigan - 1855 - 770 pages
...virtue of this section, or any agreement made in pursuance thereof, such obligation. when death Sec. ^' Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default of any railroad company or its agents, and the y for act, neglect or default is such as would (if death... | |
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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... 
