§ 1227 Deceased Statements In Wrongful Death

• •If someone dies and their family sues for wrongful death, the court can use things the dead person said as evidence.
• •This only works if the evidence is used against the person being sued, not the family suing.
• •Normally, you can't use what someone said outside of court as proof, but this law makes an exception for wrongful death cases.

A person gets hit by a car and later dies. Before dying, they told their friend, 'The driver was texting and didn't stop at the red light.'

In this case, the family sues the driver for wrongful death. The court can use the dead person's statement about the driver texting as evidence, even though it wasn't said in court.