Armentrout v. Hughes

The assignments of error raise questions as to the competency of evidence, the accuracy and propriety of the *632charge, and the adjudication that plaintiff take nothing when, as a matter of law, he was, on the admissions made in the pleadings, entitled to at least nominal damages which would entitle him to costs. G.S. 6-1.

Basic to a decision of each assignment of error is the correct interpretation of our statute permitting recovery of damages for the wrongful death of another.

English common law, adopted as the law of our State, gave no right of action for damages for tortious killing of a human…