Bristor v. Bristor

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining “[a] party aggrieved by the acts of another, or by the concurring acts or more than one person, is entitled to only one recovery.” (Internal quotation marks and citations omitted)
• “Manifestly the [wrongful-death] statute ... was not [intended] to create a right of action in the beneficiaries, but only to protect the recovery for benefit from the claim of others.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).