Mallison v. Pomeroy

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a “viable” unborn child is a “person” for purposes of Article I, section 10, of the Oregon Constitution and recognizing an action for wrongful death of a stillborn child
• child plaintiff, who suffered injuries in womb of mother, who was six months’ pregnant at the time of accident, had claim for the prenatal injuries against defendant
• a child may sue for injuries received before birth
• a child may sue for injuries received before birth
• by implication in wrongful-death case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).