 In a civil Court the death of a human being could not be complained of as an injury; and in this case the damages to the plaintiff's wife must stop with the period of her existence.  California Legal Record - Side 3441878Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Ohio. Superior Court (Cincinnati), Robert D. Handy, John H. Handy - 1877 - 694 sider
...reported. In the latter year, Lord Ellenborough held, in Baker r Bolton and others, 1 Camp. 493, "that in a civil court the death of a human being could not be complained of as an injuiy." and therefore the plaintiff's claim to damages for the loss of his wifo must stop with the... | |
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - 1877 - 1000 sider
...person before Lord Campbell's Act. In Baker v. Bolton (3) it was laid down by Lord Ellen borough tliat " in a civil court the death of a human being could not be cornplainted of as an injury ; and in this case the damages as to the plaintiff's wife must stop with... | |
 | Timothy Walker - 1882 - 850 sider
...216; Griswold v. Brown, 1 Day's Cases in Error, 180; Holmes i>. Moore, 5 Pick. 257. At common law, the death of a human being could not be complained of as an injury in a civil action, even by relatives dependent upon him for comfort and support. Baker v. Bolton, 1... | |
 | John Hutton Balfour Browne - 1883 - 818 sider
...bruises which the plaintiff had himself sustained, and the loss of his wife's society, and the distress he had suffered on her account from the time of the accident till the moment of her dissolution." And he added, " In a civil court, the death of a human being could not be complained 1 Pym v. Great... | |
 | 1894 - 1156 sider
...He was defeated by the ruling of Lord Ellenborough, who then laid down his famous proposition that, "in a. civil court, the death of a human being could not be complained of as an injury." His statement of the law lias been accepted as final in the courts of this country, "equally iu actions... | |
 | 1884 - 876 sider
...good ? In Baker v. Bollón, 1 Camp. 493, Lord Ellenborough ie reported to have used these words: " In a civil court, the death of a human being could not be complained of as an injury." No authority is cited for this opinion. In Com. Dig., tit. Trespass, B, 5, it is said: "So it [trespass]... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Herbert Francis Manisty, Charles Francis Cagney - 1884 - 1078 sider
...nisipriv* decision of Lord Elleriborough in Baker v. Bolton (d), 'u which it was laid down as law that in a civil court the death of a human being could not be complained of as au injury. If the ground for this statement is, as it seems it must be, that death can only be complained... | |
 | 1886 - 868 sider
...held, that the jury could take into consideration only the bruises which the plaintiff had sustained,' and the loss of his wife's society, and the distress...suffered on her account, from the time of the accident to the time of her death. And he announced the principle of his decision in these words: " In a civil... | |
 | 1902 - 1164 sider
...Lord Ellenborough, in 1808, in Baker v. Bolton, 1 Camp. 493, wherein he announced the proposition that "in a civil court the death of a human being could not be complained of as an Injury." Hence compensation in damages was not recoverable for either the injury to the deceased, or the loss... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1886 - 686 sider
...right, and that none exists by the common law. That it was the settled rule of the common law that the death of a human being could not be complained of as an injury in a civil court, is a proposition universally admitted, both in England and in this country. A parent... | |
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