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[CITE: 45USC59]

 
                           TITLE 45--RAILROADS
 
             CHAPTER 2--LIABILITY FOR INJURIES TO EMPLOYEES
 
Sec. 59. Survival of right of action of person injured

    Any right of action given by this chapter to a person suffering 
injury shall survive to his or her personal representative, for the 
benefit of the surviving widow or husband and children of such employee, 
and, if none, then of such employee's parents; and, if none, then of the 
next of kin dependent upon such employee, but in such cases there shall 
be only one recovery for the same injury.

(Apr. 22, 1908, ch. 149, Sec. 9, as added Apr. 5, 1910, ch. 143, Sec. 2, 
36 Stat. 291.)