Sneed v. Henderson Ex Rel. Henderson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a landlord owes his tenants “a duty to do that which a man exercising ordinary and reasonable care would [do] under like to similar circumstances” and “a duty not to omit the doing of any act which a man of ordinary care would not omit to do under the same standard”
• allowing suit to proceed for the wrongful death of an infant’s mother, where wrongful death statute provided that action would pass “to his children or to his next of kin” but “applie[d] equally whether the deceased injured party be male or female”
• Allowing suit to proceed for the wrongful death of an infant’s 9 mother, where wrongful death statute provided that action would pass “to his children or to his next of kin” but “applie[d] equally whether the deceased injured party be male or female.”
• action against lessor maintainable where tenant died from carbon monoxide poisoning as a result of faulty gas refrigerator repair
• claim for compensation covers every stage before actual payment of award
• “[T]he right of action shall pass ‘to his children or to his next of kin.’ The next of kin of the deceased mother are her children and they are to inherit equally from her under our law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).