Ickes v. Brimhall

SADLER, Justice.

We are asked to determine upon this appeal whether the cause of action for wrongful death provided by 1929 Comp. § 36-101 (amended, Laws 1931, c. 19) against common carriers, corporate or natural persons, survives the death of the statutory wrongdoer, no action having been instituted prior thereto.

In the case before us the owner and operator of the public conveyance was an individual. The vehicle was an automobile in which plaintiff’s wife traveled as a passenger and from the claimed negligent operation of which she lost her life. She succumbed at the scene of the accident to…