269 Ga. App. 147 - Mowell v. Marks’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 208 Ga. App. 26 - Smith v. Memorial Medical Center, Inc. · 266 Ga. App. 637 - Daniel v. Smith · 221 Ga. App. 890 - Kappa Sigma International Fraternity v. Tootle · Bridges Farms, Inc. v. Blue · 243 Ga. App. 674 - Moore v. BellSouth Mobility, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
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“A survivor cannot recover for the decedent’s wrongful death if the decedent could not have recovered in his or her own right. As we have found: ‘[although it is true that the action created by the wrongful death statute is different from the cause of action which the decedent would have possessed if he had lived, any defense which would have been good against the decedent is good against his representatives in a wrongful death action.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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