Section 12 Wrongful Death Actions

• Library: Damages 2012

In wrongful death cases, the law implies pecuniary loss from a decedent’s legal duty to support a party or a party’s right to receive support from a decedent. See:

Stroud v. Masek, 262 S.W.2d 47, 51 (Mo. 1953) (husband)

Kastner v. Beech Aircraft Corp., 650 S.W.2d 312, 315 (Mo. App. W.D. 1983) (husband and father)

State ex rel.Kansas City Stock Yards Co. of Me. v. Clark, 536 S.W.2d 142, 148 (Mo. banc 1976) (child)

Aubuchon v. LaPlant, 435 S.W.2d 648, 652 (Mo. 1968) (child)

When a pecuniary benefit from...