 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 880 sider
...its negligence. A statute of Illinois enacts: "SECT. 1. That whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the...neglect, or default, is such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled Statement of the case. the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages... | |
 | Nevada - 1871 - 252 sider
...represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the...an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then, and in every such case, the persons who, or the corporation which would have been liable, if... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, William Mawdesley Best, George James Philip Smith - 1870 - 1102 sider
...damages for the injury so caused by him :" enacts, "That whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the...an 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... | |
 | John Wade - 1871 - 946 sider
...Campbell's Act, the 9 & 10 V. c. 93, which provides, "that whensoever the death of a person shall be Gained by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act,...an 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... | |
 | South Carolina. Supreme Court, J. S. G. Richardson, Robert Wallace Shand, Cyprian Melanchthon Efird, William Hay Townsend, Duncan C. Ray, William Munro Shand - 1921 - 638 sider
..."Whenever the death of a person shall be caused- by the wrongful act, neglect, or default of another, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would,...an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case, the person or corporation who would have been liable, if death had not... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1867 - 674 sider
...that, " whenever the death of a person shall be caused by the wrongful act, &c., and the act, &c., is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled...an 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... | |
 | Thomas William Saunders - 1871 - 338 sider
...damages for the injury so caused by him, enacts— 1. " That whensoever the death of a person shall be " caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the...neglect or default is such as would (if death had " not ensued) have entitled the party injured to main" tain an action and recover damages in respect thereof,... | |
 | John Williams, Sir Edmund Saunders - 1871 - 756 sider
...Viet. c. 93, s. 1, by which it is enacted (s. 1) that " whensoever *' the death of a person shall be " caused by wrongful act, neglect, " or default, and..." or default is such as would (if " death had not ensued) have en" titled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof,... | |
 | William Wait - 1872 - 950 sider
...general rule there is one apparent statutory exception : " Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the...an 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... | |
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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... 
