Court Opinion

ID: 9832342
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 21:50:08.609051+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:45.808444
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On Appellant’s Motion for Rehearing.
The maxim, “actio personalis moritur cum persona,” as stated in the citation from Corpus Juris, heretofore mentioned, does not *1112apply to a case where the tort out of which the cause of action grows is the tort of a third party and not of the party deceased. Under this announcement in Corpus Juris is cited the case of Dayton v. Lynes, 30 Conn. 351, where a sheriff was charged with the default of a deputy sheriff, and it was held that after the death of the sheriff an action was maintainable against the latter’s administrator. It is probable that this holding is a modification of the rule of law applied in many cases where death has closed the mouth of one party to the transaction, and the law closes the' mouth of the other party. The case of Mayer v. Ertheiler, 144 App. Div. 158, 128 N. Y. S. 807, holds: “The test of survivorship is whether there was an injury to the pecuniary interests of the plaintiff, and it is immaterial whether the wrongdoer profited by his wrong.”
We conclude that we have correctly disposed of this case in the original opinion, and therefore that the motion for rehearing should be overruled, and it is accordingly so ordered.