Van Beeck v. Sabine Towing Co.

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• holding that consistent with “the rule in many of the state courts in which like statutes are in force,” a mother’s claim under the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 for compensation for the negligent death of her son did not abate at her death
• Held Merchant Marine Act wrongful death cause of action survived sailor’s mother’s death.
• “Death statutes have their roots in- dissatisfaction with the archaisms of the law____ It would be a misfortune if a narrow or grudging process of construction were to exemplify and perpetuate the very evils to be remedied”
• dis. opn. of Frankfurter, J.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).