85 Ga. 193 | Ga. | 1890
Sallie Perry brought her action against the railroad company, in which she alleged that on April 10th, 1886, her minor son, aged sixteen years and seven months,
There was no error in sustaining the demurrer and dismissing the action. ■ As the law stood when this homicide occurred, the parent’s only right of action for the killing of a minor child was for the loss of the service of such child; and where this allegation is lacking in the . declaration in an action of this kind, no cause of action is set out. Nowhere in this declaration is such an allegation made. We do not agree with counsel for the plaintiff in error that it is embraced in the terms, “the financial value of the life of her said minor son from the time he was killed until the time he reached his majority.” The financial value of his life was quite a different thing from an allegation of the loss of his service. Moreover, the declaration contains no averment that the plaintiff' is a widow, or that the father of the minor is dead, or that the minor was a