NEGLIGENCE - WRONGFUL DEATH ACT-WIFE'S DEATH RESULTING FROM HUSBAND'S NEGLIGENCE

Authors

Virginia M. Renz, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Abstract

The Pennsylvania wrongful death statute provides that whenever death shall be occasioned by unlawful violence or negligence and no suit has been brought by the party injured during his or her life, the husband, widow, children, or parents of the deceased shall be entitled to recover for damages for injuries causing the death. Under this statute a father sued to recover damages for the death of his daughter which resulted from an automobile accident caused by the negligence of her husband. Held, the wife's disability to sue her husband for tort is personal; it does not bar recovery of damages, from the estate of her husband, by her father for deprivation of support furnished by her. Kaczorowski v. Kalkosinski, 321 Pa. 438, 184 A. 663 (1936).

Recommended Citation

Virginia M. Renz, NEGLIGENCE - WRONGFUL DEATH ACT-WIFE'S DEATH RESULTING FROM HUSBAND'S NEGLIGENCE, 35 Mich. L. Rev. 508 (1937).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol35/iss3/20