Rinker v. Hurd

Citations

• 69 Wash. 257
• 124 P. 687
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 886

Syllabus

<p>Abatement and Revival—Action eor Death—Abatement—■ Death op Wrongdoer. Under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 183, providing that a cause of action for death by wrongful act or neglect of another may be maintained by heirs or personal representatives against the person causing the death, and Id., § 967, providing that all other causes of action by one person against another survive to the personal representatives of the former against the personal representatives of the latter, a cause of action for wrongful death survives only against the wrongdoer and abates upon his death.</p>