Gaudette v. Webb

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “the right to recovery for wrongful death is of common law origin”
• holding that \the right to recovery for wrongful death is of common law origin\
• declaring existence of common-law wrongful death action and tolling limitations provision for minors
• declaring existence of common-law wrongful death action and tolling limitations provision for minors
• recognizing common-law origin of wrongful death actions in Commonwealth
• involving a revised construction of the limitations period so that minor children would not be barred from maintaining a wrongful death action where responsible adult failed to take action at proper time

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).