Ferguson v. Delaware & Atlantic Telegraph & Telephone Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Swayze, J.

This action is brought by a father to recover damages for the death of his son. It is not an action brought under the Death act by an administrator. The declaration avers that the plaintiff’s son, an infant of the age of nine years, came in contact with a wire of the defendant company and was so injured that he died “on the day and year aforesaid;” and that, as the father of the deceased, he was obliged to pay the burial expenses and has been deprived of the services of the deceased “from the date .aforesaid for all times hereafter.” The only…