Wilson v. Bumstead
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error to the district court for Lancaster county. Tried below before Pound, I. The case is stated in the opinion. cited Pennsylvania Baib'oad v. Zebe, 33 Penn. State, 318, Sullivan v. D. P. Baib'oad, 3 Dillon, 335. Peck v. Mayor, 3 Com-stock, 489. Field on Damages. Gilligan v. The New York A Harlem R. R., 1 E. D. Smith, 458. Potter v. Chicago A Northwestern R. R., 21 Wis., 372. No action would lie at common law.
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Error to the district court for Lancaster county. Tried below before Pound, I. The case is stated in the opinion. cited Pennsylvania Baib'oad v. Zebe, 33 Penn. State, 318, Sullivan v. D. P. Baib'oad, 3 Dillon, 335. Peck v. Mayor, 3 Com-stock, 489. Field on Damages. Gilligan v. The New York A Harlem R. R., 1 E. D. Smith, 458. Potter v. Chicago A Northwestern R. R., 21 Wis., 372. No action would lie at common law. Sedgwick on Damages, 644. The whole matter is regulated by statute. Comp. Stat., 211. Railroad Co. v. Barron, 5 Wall., 90. Dickens v. Neto York Central, 28 Barb., 41. Pennsylvania…
1Opinion of the Court
Maxwell, Ch. J.
The plaintiff in his own name commenced an action in the district court of Lancaster county against the defendant to recover from him .$10,000.00 for the death of two of his children alleged to have been caused by the defendant who “ so carelessly, negligently, ignorantly and unskilfully doctored and cared for said children; that by the ignorance, negligence and unskilfullness of said defendant, the said children were both killed, and died from the effects of the ignorance, carelessness, negligence and unskilfullness of said defendant, L. J. Bumstead,” etc.
The defendant…
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