Wooden v. Western N.Y.&P.R. Co.,
Court | New York Court of Appeals |
Writing for the Court | FINCH |
Citation | 26 N.E. 1050,126 N.Y. 10 |
Parties | WOODEN v. WESTERN N. Y. & P. R. CO. |
Decision Date | 10 March 1891 |
126 N.Y. 10
26 N.E. 1050
WOODEN
v.
WESTERN N. Y. & P. R. CO.
Court of Appeals of New York.
March 10, 1891.
Appeal from superior court of Buffalo, general term.
[126 N.Y. 12]John G. Milburn, for appellant.
Harlow C. Curtiss, for respondent.
[126 N.Y. 14]FINCH, J.
This appeal is from an interlocutory judgment overruling a demurrer and determining that the complaint assailed stated a good cause of action. That pleading alleged that the plaintiff was and is a resident of this state, and the defendant a corporation created and existing under our laws. The contest thus is between a resident individual and a domestic corporation. The latter owned and operated a line of railroad extending beyond our boundaries into the adjoining state of Pennsylvania, and the complaint alleged that in that state the plaintiff's husband was killed by the negligence of the defendant company. The complaint further averred that the statutes of that state gave a right of action for the injury sustained by the widow and children; that the remedy could be enforced in the name of the former as plaintiff, but for her own benefit and that of the children; and that such statute was of similar import to that existing in our own jurisdiction. Judgment was thereupon demanded for damages in the sum of $20,000. The demurrer interposed raised two objections: First, that the statutes of the two states were not similar, but different; and, second, that the action could not be maintained here in the name of the widow, but only in that of an executor or administrator of the deceased; and the final result sought to be established was that the widow could not maintain an action in this state because that is contrary to our statute, and that the administratrix could not because that is contrary to the Pennsylvania statute; and so there is no remedy whatever in our jurisdiction.
Certain propositions essential to the inquiry before us have been explicitly determined in McDonald v. Mallory, 77 N. Y. 546, and need no other citation for their support. That case held that the liability of a person for his acts, whether wrongful or negligent, depends in general upon the law of the place in which the acts were committed; that actions for [126 N.Y. 15]injuries to the person in another state are sustained here without proof of the lex loci, because they are permitted by the common law which is presumed to exist in the foreign state; that such presumption does not arise where the right of action depends upon a statute which confers it; and that in such case the action can only be maintained here by proof that the statutes of the state in which the injury occurred give the right of...
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