Field v. Webber

This action is prosecuted for the benefit of the widow and posthumous child of the plaintiff administrator’s intestate, who died without regaining consciousness, from injuries incurred in a collision between the motorcycle he owned and was riding and an automobile truck belonging to and operated by the defendant. The action is based on the Death-Liability Act, (R. S., Chap. 101, *238Secs. 9 and 10), which affords and measures a remedy for certain designated persons, where none existed at common law. The test of the right to maintain the action is the right of the injured person to have maintained…