 ... in every such action the jury may give such damages as they shall deem fair and just, with reference to the pecuniary injury resulting from such death to the wife and next of kin of such deceased person: provided, that every such action shall be commenced...  Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review - Page 1801849Full view - About this book
 | New York (State) - 1870 - 860 pages
...of kin in the proportion now provided by law in relation to the distribution of personal property of persons dying intestate. And in every such action the jury may give such damages as they shall SU Intereit to be widcd. Actions, when to bo commenced. ProrUo. deem a fair and just compensation,... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1870 - 712 pages
...The statute declares (Laws of 1849, p. 388,) that, in every action brought under said act, "thejury may give such damages as they shall deem a fair and just compensation, not exceeding $5,000, with reference to the pecuniary injuries resulting from such death to the •wife and next... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 880 pages
...is, as to the proper measure of damages. The only direction on this subject in the statute is, that the jury may give such damages as they shall deem a fair * Chicago & Rock Island Railway Co. v. Whipple, 22 Illinois, 105 ; Ohio & Hississippi Railroad Co.... | |
 | Thomas William Saunders - 1871 - 338 pages
...and shall be " brought by and in the name of the executor or ad" ministrator of the person deceased; and in every such " action the jury may give such damages as they may " think proportioned to the injury resulting from such " death to the parties respectively, for... | |
 | Montana - 1872 - 798 pages
...kin of such deceased person, and shall be distributed to such widow and next of kin in the proportion provided by law in relation to the distribution of...every such action the jury may give such damages, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, as they shall deem a fair and just compensation, with reference... | |
 | Montana (Ter.) - 1872 - 802 pages
...kin of such deceased person, and shall be distributed to such widow and next of kin in the proportion provided by law in relation to the distribution of...every such action the jury may give such damages, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, as they shall deem a fair and just compensation, with reference... | |
 | California - 1872 - 774 pages
...be distributed to such widow and next of kin, in the proportions provided by law in relation to tho distribution of personal property left by persons...every such action, the jury may give such damages' pecuniary and exemplary, as they shall deem fair and just, and may take into consideration the pecuniary... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - 1872 - 658 pages
...to the representative a totally new right of action, on different principles. Sect. 2 enacts that " in every such action the jury may give such damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such death to the parties respectively for whom... | |
 | Michigan - 1873 - 780 pages
...action, shall be distributed to the persons and in the proportions provided Measure of damages and by law in relation to the distribution of personal...the jury may give such damages as they shall deem fair and just, with reference to the pecuniary injury resulting from such death, to those persons who... | |
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