 | New York (State) - Law - 1880 - 832 pages
...to recover damages for a negii- 7 wrongful act, neglect, or default, by which the decedent's etc!0*' death was caused, against a natural person who, or...1903. The damages recovered in an action, brought as id.; for prescribed in the last section, are exclusively for the benefit beueflt. of the decedent's... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1126 pages
...kin, may maintain an action to recover damages for a wrongful act, neglect, or default, by which the decedent's death was caused, against a natural person...commenced within two years after the decedent's death." It has been held that the requirement of an action being commenced within two years after the death,... | |
 | New York (State) - 1881 - 1532 pages
...kin, may maintain an action to recover damages for a wrongful act, neglect, or default, by which the decedent's death was caused, against a natural person...thereof, if death had not ensued. Such an action must bo commenced within two years after the decedent's death. L. 184T. ch. 450, 2 1 (\ E'lm. "Off), and... | |
 | Austin Abbott - Civil procedure - 1883 - 602 pages
...kin, may maintain an action to recover damages for a wrongful act, neglect, or default, by which the decedent's death was caused, against a natural person...commenced within two years after the decedent's death." VOL. XH.— 18 Londriggan v. NY & NHRR Co. Demurrer to answer. This was an action, brought by plaintiff... | |
 | Civil procedure - 1884 - 520 pages
...damages for a wrongful act, neglect, or default, by which the decedent's death was caused, .... against a corporation which would have been liable to an action...commenced within two years after the decedent's death." * * The wording of the original act on this subject was: " . . . . provided that every such action... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1164 pages
...kin, may maintain an action to recover damages for a wrongful act, neglect or default, by which the decedent's death was caused, against a natural person...commenced within two years after the decedent's death." On the 13th day of November, 1902, the Intestate, a ship carpenter In the employ of the defendant corporation,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1134 pages
...authorized to "maintain an action to recover damages for a wrongful act neglect or default by which the decedent's death was caused, against a natural person...decedent by reason thereof, If death had not ensued." Code Civ. Proc. 5 1902. The damages recovered in such an action "are exclusively for the benefit of... | |
 | Thomas Gaskell Shearman, Amasa Angell Redfield - Negligence - 1888 - 720 pages
...kin, may maintain an action to recover damages for a wrongful act, neglect, or default by which the decedent's death was caused, against a natural person...decedent, by reason thereof, if death had not ensued." The statutes of Rhode Island,1 Indiana,2 Minnesota,5 Kansas,4 California,5 Oregon,8 Alabama,7 Mississippi,8... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1888 - 868 pages
...kin, may maintain an action to recover damages for a wrongful act, neglect, or default, by which the decedent's death was caused, against a natural person...decedent, by reason thereof, if death had not ensued." It is provided by § 1904, that in the case of a trial by jury, " the damages awarded to the plaintiff... | |
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... would have been liable to an action in favor of the decedent by reason thereof if death had not ensued. 
