2015 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 41 - Torts
Section 2 Wrongful Death; Actions for Damages
Section 41-2-1 Death by wrongful act or neglect; liability in damages.
41-2-1. [Death by wrongful act or neglect; liability in damages.]
Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by the wrongful act, neglect or default of another, although such death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to a felony, and the act, or neglect, or default, is such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then, and in every such case, the person who, or the corporation which, would have been liable, if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured.
History: Laws 1882, ch. 61, 2; C.L. 1884, 2309; Laws 1891, ch. 49, 1; C.L. 1897, 3214; Code 1915, 1821; C.S. 1929, 36-102; 1941 Comp., 24-101; 1953 Comp., 22-20-1.
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