Case ID: mo_97/html/0079-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Sherwood, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Davis, Appellant, v. Morgan, Administrator.
    
    Mon-survival of Action for Personal Injuries: practice. An action for personal injuries cannot, after the death of the defendant, be revived in the name of his' administrator. (R. S. 187&, secs. 96, 97).
    
      Appeal from Scotland Circuit Court.-*-IIon. B. E. Turner, Judge.
    Stricken from the docket.
    
      McKee & Jayne for appellant.
    
      Smoot & Pettengill and Shelton & Dysart for respondent.
   Sherwood, J.

This action was brought for personal injuries caused to plaintiff by the fall of a house owned by Robert Gf. Shaw. Such proceedings were had in the circuit court as compelled plaintiff to take a nonsuit and he has appealed here. During the present term, the death of the defendant has been suggested, and by consent, the administrator has been made a party to the action.

The merits of this cause cannot be discussed, since the action was for personal injuries, and judgment for the defendant, who, since appeal taken, has died. -The action, by reason of defendant’s death, abated, and could not be revived in the name of his administrator. R. S. 1879, secs. 96, 97. The maxim, “ actio personalis moritur cum persona” applies, and our statute, so far as concerns this case, is only declaratory of the common law. Stanley v. Bircher's Ex’r, 78 Mo. 245; 1 Chitty Pl. 77, and cas. cit.

Inasmuch as the -action has abated, the cause will be stricken from the docket.

All concur.