Court Opinion

ID: 9640619
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 17:09:58.789314+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:05:08.386090
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NORTUCOTT, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
As stated in the majority opinion “all matters pertaining to the substantive right of recovery under a wrongful death statute, including the right to recover, the nature of the right, and the party in whom it is vested, are governed by the law of the state where the injury resulting in death occurred.” Ormsby v.'Chase, 290 U. S. 387, 54 S. Ct. 211, 78 L. Ed. 378. Were this suit brought in Virginia it could not be maintained. To hold that under the North Carolina statute a suit not maintainable in Virginia, where the accident happened, is maintainable in North Carolina, would givo to the North Carolina statute an extraterritorial effect. The North Carolina statute cannot create rights in a beneficiary not given by the Virginia law. Ormsby v. Chase, supra; McGinnis v. Missouri Car & Foundry Co., 174 Mo. 225, 73 S. W. 586, 97 Am. St. Rep. 553; 8 R. C. L. 762.
For this reason I am of the opinion that • the judgment of the court below should be affirmed.