Woodstock Operating Corp. v. Young
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Georgia; Samuel H. Sibley, Judge. Separate actions by Mrs. J. C. Young and by J. C. Young against the Woodstock Operating Corporation, consolidated for trial. Judgment for plaintiff in each action, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Circuit Judge.
The above cases are, respectively, a suit by the mother and father of Carl Young. That of the mother is to recover the full value of her son’s life, under the provisions of the Code of Georgia (1910) § 4424, which gives to a mother the right to recover the full value of the life of the deceased for the death of a child resulting from a crime, or criminal or other negligence, upon which child she is dependent, and who contributes to her support, where said child leaves no wife, husband, or child. The second suit is by the father of said Carl Young to recover for the loss of…
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