 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1879 - 936 pages
...representative of such deceased adm x. person, and within twelve calendar months after his or her death. The jury in any such action may award such damages as to it may seem fair and just, and may direct in what proportion they shall be distributed to the wife, husband, parent and child... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1880 - 1036 pages
...adm'r. In our statute, instead of these words, or words of like import, being employed, it is declared that "the jury in any such action may award such damages as to it may seem fair and just," * * * in no case the sum recovered to "exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars." Certainly, in the Virginia... | |
 | 1917 - 2042 pages
...Code Va. 1904, ยงยง 2902-2904, give a right of action for wrongful death, and provide that the Jury may award such damages as to it may seem fair and just, not exceeding $10,000, and may direct in what proportion they shall be distributed to the beneficiaries therein specified,... | |
 | 1914 - 1230 pages
...otherwise, to his mother from a continuance of the life of the deceased son. The Virginia statute declared that "the jury in any such action may award such damages as to it may seem fair and just," etc. In affirming the judgment, at page 577 of the opinion, Mr. Justice Christian said: "I think it... | |
 | District of Columbia. Supreme Court (1863-1936), Franklin Hubbell Mackey - 1888 - 650 pages
...representatives of such deceased person, and within twelve calendar months after his or her death. The jury in any such action may award such damages as to it may seem fair and just, and may direct in what proportion they shall be distributed to the wife, husband, parent and child... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - 1893 - 1132 pages
...Camp. 499. * Blake v. Midland Ry. Co., 18 QB 'Hyatt v. Adams, 16 Mich. 180, 9a See ch. 27, vol. 3. jury may award such damages " as to it may seem fair and just." ' The mental and physical pain of the deceased is not to be considered by the jury in finding the injury... | |
 | Francis Buchanan Tiffany - 1893 - 458 pages
...court in the latter case rests its decision on the language of the act which provides that the jury "may award such damages as to it may seem fair and just," and which it says differs from that of other states in not expressly or impliedly limiting the damages... | |
 | William Benjamin Hale - 1896 - 516 pages
...court in the latter case rests its decision on the language of the act which provides that the jury "may award such damages as to it may seem fair and just," and which it says differs from that of other states in not expressly or implieiily limiting the damages... | |
 | 1903 - 1010 pages
...representative of such deceased person, and within twelve months after his or her death. The jury in such action may award such damages as to it may seem...fair and just, not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and may direct in what proportion they shall be distributed to the wife, husband, parent and child... | |
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The jury in any such action may award such damages as to it may seem fair and just... 
