Tauch v. Ferguson-Steere Motor Company

SADLER, Justice.

We are asked to decide whether the personal representative of a decedent, suffering wrongful death within the purview of 1953 Comp., § 22-20-4, who was over 21 years of age at the time of his death, unmarried, and left surviving him no wife, child or children, or other named and described dependent person (kindred) enumerated in said section, may recover the stipulated damage therein authorized.

The accident out of which arose the three causes of action involved on this appeal occurred in Otero County, New Mexico, ort November 22, 1953, in a collision between a tractor-trailer…