exclusive remedy
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From 229 U.S. 156 - St Louis San Francisco Texas Railway Company v. Maude Seale · 1913Most cited · 440 citing opinions
If the Federal statute was applicable, the state statute was excluded by reason of the supremacy of the former under the national Constitution... And if the Federal statute was applicable, the right of recovery, if any, was in the personal representative of the deceased, and no one else could maintain the action.