Coulter v. New Jersey Pulverizing Co.

*6The opinion of the court was delivered by

Bodine, J.

The present actions were brought under the Death act. The defendant answered that the actions were barred by the statute of limitations. The plaintiffs moved to strike the answers and the defendant moved to strike the complaints. The defendant’s motion must be granted and the plaintiffs’ denied.

The question here presented is whether the representatives may sue under the Death act when their decedents’ right of action for the same negligence complained of in the action under the Death act was barred by limitations at the time of the decedents’…