Board of Education v. State Board of Education

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• sum recovered not asset of estate, not subject to decedent's debts or liabilities, and sum recovered is distributable in accordance with our statute of distribution
• sum recovered not asset of estate, not subject to decedent's debts or liabilities, and sum recovered is distributable in accordance with our statute of distribution
• sum recovered as result of a wrongful death not asset of estate, not subject to decedent’s debts or liabilities, and sum recovered is distributable in accordance with our statute of distribution
• sum recovered as result of a wrongful death not asset of estate, not subject to decedent’s debts or liabilities, and sum recovered is distributable in accordance with our statute of distribution
• “[punitive] damages may be even forbidden, or affirmatively withheld, by legislative enactment .... In short, such damages, until a vested property right attaches to them through a judgment rendered in a party’s favor, are not properly within the protection of Constitutions”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).