Every such action shall be brought by and in the names of the personal representatives of such deceased person, and the amount recovered in every such action shall be for the exclusive benefit of the widow and next of kin... The Northwestern Reporter - Page 3981898Full view - About this book
| California, Theodore Henry Hittell - 1865 - 662 pages
...the personal representatives of such deceased person, and the amount recovered in every such action shall be for the exclusive benefit of the widow and next of kin of such deceased person, and shall be distributed to such widow and next of kin, in the proportions... | |
| 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 - 1865 - 722 pages
...same right of action on the personal representative of the deceased person, and "the sum recovered to be for the exclusive benefit of the widow and next of kin," it has been held that the complaint should show that " there are persons entitled by law to claim the... | |
| Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer, New Jersey - 1868 - 1198 pages
...the personal representatives of such deceased person; .and the amount recovered in every such action shall be for the exclusive benefit of the widow and next of kin of such deceased person, and shall be distributed to such widow and next of kin £.».-, in the * proportions... | |
| 1868 - 894 pages
...ensued, entitle such person to maintain an action for damages — provides, that the amount recovered shall be for the exclusive benefit of the widow, and next of kin, in the proportion provided by law in the distribution of personal property left by persons dying intestate;... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 880 pages
...ensued, entitled such person to maintain an action for damages — provides, that the amount recovered shall be for the exclusive benefit of the widow, and next of kin, in the proportion provided by law in the distribution of personal property left by persons dying intestate;... | |
| Michigan - 1870 - 336 pages
...representatives of such Jf "eonal repreKI"~ deceased person, and the amount recovered in any such action shall be for the exclusive benefit of the widow and next of kin of such deceased person, and shall be distributed to such widow and next of kin in the proportion provided... | |
| Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - 1870 - 764 pages
...statute, 9th and 10th Victoria, chapter 93. The New York statute provides, that " the amount recovered shall be for the exclusive benefit of the widow and next of kin, and shall be distributed in the proportions provided by law in relation to the distribution of personal... | |
| 1890 - 542 pages
...escape this concluaiou by insisting — First, that as the mnount recovered in such action i • to be for the exclusive benefit of the widow and next of kin, the widow may be allowed to sue for it in her own name; and secondly, that the second section concerns... | |
| 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 pages
...statute which relates to the subject declares, that the amount to be recovered in this class of actions shall be for the " exclusive benefit of the widow and next of kin " of the deceased; and that the jury "may give such damages as they shall deem a fair and just compensation,... | |
| Montana (Ter.) - 1872 - 802 pages
...the personal representatives of such deceased persons, and the amount recovered in every such action shall be for the exclusive benefit of the widow and next of kin of such deceased person, and shall be distributed to such widow and next of kin in the proportion provided... | |
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