Espinosa v. Haslam

FRICKE, J., pro tem.

Action for the death of a son, Raymond, twenty years of age, by reason of the wrongful act of defendant, brought under the authority of section 376 of the Code of Civil Procedure, which provides that “a father, or, in ease of his death or desertion of his family, the mother, may maintain an action for the injury or death of a minor child”.

This action was commenced February 8, 1934. It appears that on October 3, 1933, Mary Espinosa, the wife of respondent and mother of deceased, commenced a similar action against appellant, predicating her right to do so upon the alleged…