Sines v. Maddox

How courts have described this case

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

• “But in any event the immediate, absolute, and final vesting of the right occurs at the time of the decease, not at the time of bringing suit or of recovery.”
• “[A]t common law no remedy by action existed for loss of life. The [wrongful death] right of action set up by the plaintiff is a pure creature of statute, and upon the fair construction of that statute this case stands or falls.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).