Western & Atlantic Railroad v. Harris

1. The right to institute an action for the homicide of a-father is, under the Civil Code, §3828, where there is no widow, vested, in the minor children of the deceased. An adult child has'no right to . institute such a suit. Mott v. Central Railroad, 70 Ga. 680; Coleman v. Hyer, 113 Ga. 420. Accordingly, when a suit for the homicide of a father was brought by three plaintiffs, alleging themselves to be children of the deceased, and two were adults and one a minor, a demurrer raising the objection that the adults were improperly joined as plaintiffs should have been sustained. Civil Code,…