Hermann v. New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad

Chief Justice Edstis,

in Hubgh v. the same defendants, 6th An., says.'—

“But the ground on which Grotius, with whom the idea originates, places it, excludes all idea of its forming a part of the civil law, or being the basis of an action. Speaking of the indemnity to be made in .cases of injury, he goes onto state some examples, of what the indemnity, which the party committing the wrong is bound to make, consists: A man who has unjustly killed another, ought to pay the expenses incurred for hi§ physicians, and give to those whom the deceased was bound to support, as his father and mother, his…