Myers v. Pacific Greyhound Lines

BRATTON, Circuit Judge.

Section 24-104, New Mexico Statutes Annotated 1941, creates a civil liability 'for wrongful death proximately due to negligence in the operation of a stage coach or other public conveyance; and it authorizes a suit for recovery (1) by the husband or wife of the deceased, or (2) if there be no husband or wife, or if he or she fails to sue within six months after such death, by the minor child or children, or (3) if the deceased be a minor and unmarried, by the father and mother, or (4) if the deceased be more than twenty-one years of age and unmarried, by a dependent…