TAUCH v. FERGUSON-STEERE MOTOR COMPANY

No. 6156, No. 5817, No. 5847, No. 5959.

312 P.2d 83 (1957)

62 N.M. 429

Grace H. TAUCH, Ancillary Executrix of the Estate of John Stanton Meyer, deceased, Plaintiff, Consolidated Lloyds, a corporation, Intervenor, James Levi cunningham, Ancillary Administrator of the Estate of Stewart James Cunningham, deceased, Plaintiff, Henry W. Ryan, Ancillary Administrator of the Estate of Clyde Dale Brittan, deceased, Plaintiff, Appellees, v. FERGUSON-STEERE MOTOR COMPANY, a corporation, Defendant, Appellant.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

Rehearing Denied June 20, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Merritt W. Oldaker, Roy F. Miller, Jr., William H. Oldaker, Albuquerque, for appellant.

John H. Lawless, Jr., Alamogordo, Andress, Lipscomb, Peticolas & Fisk, El Paso, Tex., for appellees.


SADLER, Justice.

We are asked to decide whether the personal representative of a decedent, suffering wrongful death within the purview of 1953 Comp., § 22-20-4, who was over 21 years of age at the time of his death, unmarried, and left surviving him no wife, child or children, or other named and described dependent person (kindred) enumerated in said section, may recover the stipulated damage therein authorized.

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