Can this claimant rely upon the claim of her mother for wrongful death?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Petersen v. City of Vallejo, 259 Cal.App.2d 757, 66 Cal.Rptr. 776 (Cal. App. 1968):
Nor can this claimant rely upon the claim of her mother on the theory that there can be only one action, and therefore one claim for wrongful death. (Code Civ.Proc. 377.) Whatever may have been said of the California law prior to the decision in Cross v. Pacific Gas & Elec. Co. (1964) 60 Cal.2d 690, 36 Cal.Rptr. 321, 388 P.2d 353, 5 that case established the following
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