Natchez Cotton Mills Co. v. Mullins
Cases that cite this one
6 later published cases cite this decision.
- Mann v. Minnesota Electric Light & Power Co. (10th Cir. 1930)
- Parmley v. Pleasant Valley Coal Co. (Utah 1924)
- American Car & Foundry Co. v. Anderson (8th Cir. 1914)
- Conover v. Pennsylvania R. (U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York 1910)
- Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Gipe (Ind. 1903)
- Foot v. Great Northern Railway Co. (Minn. 1900)
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Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The widow alone had the right of action, and she had the right to accept satisfaction, and discharge the defendant. Code, § 1510.
Her children must look to her, and not to the defendant. A mother’s love is a sufficient safeguard against improperly acquitting a defendant from liability, and the law in such cases as this has committed the interests of children to their mother. To her is committed the right of action, and she alone may control it. Stephens v. Railroad, 10 Lea, 448; McNamara v. Slavens, 76 Mo. 329.
Decree reversed\ demurrer sustained 'and hill dismissed.
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