Jones v. Seaboard Air-Line Railway Co.

1. “Under the Civil Code (1910), § 4424, as amended by the act of 1924 (Acts 1924, p. 60), children of a widowed mother, whether minors or adults, have a right of action for the tortious homicide of their mother. . . If the mother is not a widow, but leaves a husband and children, the husband and children have a joint cause of action for the tortious homicide of the mother. The statute restricts the right to sue for such homicide to the husband and children jointly, and forbids separate action.” Hood v. Southern Railway Co., 169 Ga. 158 (149 S. E. 898).

2. The case is not altered by the fact…