Fowler v. Woodward

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• holding fetus in eighth month of gestation was presumed viable and thus wrongful death action could be maintained
• holding fetus in eighth month of gestation was presumed viable and thus wrongful death action could be maintained
• unborn child, a viable fetus, is capable of suffering legal wrong and may maintain action for wrongful death where mother and fetus perished in vehicle wreck
• a viable fetus is a person capable of maintaining a wrongful death action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).