Keenan Welding Supplies Co. v. Bronner

Nichols, Judge.

The act of 1952 (Ga. L. 1952, p. 224; Code, Ann., § 3-505), provides that no cause of action for negligent homicide shall abate because of the death of either party, and that in the event there is no right of survivorship in any other person, the cause of action shall be in the personal representative of the deceased plaintiff. Prior to the enactment of the above statute where a husband and father was killed and his widow died before instituting an action the cause of action survived to the children of the deceased father. See City of Elberton v. Thornton, 138 Ga. 776 (76 S. E.…