Saveljich v. Lytle Logging & Mercantile Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In .Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Western District of Washington. This is an action at law, brought by the plaintiffs, Staka Radova Saveljich and her several minor children, subjects of the Prince of Montenegro, by their guardian ad litem, Vido Batrichevich, against the defendant, Lytle Logging & Mercantile Company, to recover damages for the death of her husband, Rade Saveljich, who was killed while employed as a laborer by…
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In .Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Western District of Washington. This is an action at law, brought by the plaintiffs, Staka Radova Saveljich and her several minor children, subjects of the Prince of Montenegro, by their guardian ad litem, Vido Batrichevich, against the defendant, Lytle Logging & Mercantile Company, to recover damages for the death of her husband, Rade Saveljich, who was killed while employed as a laborer by the defendant and engaged in the work of grading, near Porter, Wash., with a scraper operated by means of an engine and…
1Opinion of the CourtMorrow, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Section 4828 of Ballinger’s Annotated Codes & Statutes of the State of Washington (Pierce’s Code, § 256) contains the following provision:
“When the death of a person is caused by the wrongful act or neglect of another his heirs or personal representatives may maintain an action for damages against the person causing the death. * * * In every such action the jury may give such damages, pecuniary or exemplary, as under all circumstances of the case may to them seem just.”
In 1904 Judge I-Ianford, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of…
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