566 So. 2d 156 - Chatelain v. STATE, DOTD’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “The right to recover all other damages caused by an offense or quasi offense, if the injured person dies, shall survive for a period of one year from the death of the deceased in favor of: (1) the surviving spouse and child or children of the deceased, or either such spouse or such child or children; (2) the surviving father and mother of the deceased, or either of them, if he left no spouse or child surviving; and (3) the surviving brothers and sisters of the deceased, or any of them, if he left no spouse, child, or parent surviving. The survivors in whose favor this right of action survives may also recover the damages which they sustained through the wrongful death of the deceased. As used in this article, the words "child", "brother", "sister", "father", and "mother" include a child, brother, sister, father, and mother, by adoption, respectively. (emphasis added). [1]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 586 So. 2d 1373 - Chatelain v. STATE, DOTD

2. “those persons born of the marriage, those adopted, and those whose filiation to the parent has been established in the manner provided by law,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 586 So. 2d 1373 - Chatelain v. STATE, DOTD