| New York (State) - Session laws - 1849 - 864 pages
...distribution of personal property left by persons dying intestate ; and in every such action the jury may give such damages as they shall deem a fair and just compensation, not exceeding five thousand dollars, with reference to the pecuniary injuries resulting from such death... | |
| Commerce - 1849 - 716 pages
...distribution of personal property left by persons dying intestate ; and in every such action the jury may give such damages as they shall deem a fair and just compensation, not exceeding five thousand dollars, with reference to the pecuniary injuries resulting from such death... | |
| Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1849 - 710 pages
...distribution of personal property left by persons dying intestate ; and in every such action the jury may give such damages as they shall deem a fair and just compensation, Tiot exceeding five thousand dollars, with reference to the pecuniary injuries resulting from such... | |
| William Tidd - Civil procedure - 1856 - 838 pages
...distribution of personal property left by persons dying intestate ; and in every sucli action, the jury may give such damages as they shall deem a fair and just compensation, not exceeding five thousand dollars, with reference to the pecuniary injuries resulting from such death... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 648 pages
...dollars, and no less. By section two of the act under which this action is brought, a jury is permitted to give such damages as they shall deem a fair and...reference to the pecuniary injuries resulting from the death, to the widow and next of kin of the deceased, not exceeding five thousand dollars. The only... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 660 pages
...such deceased, such damages as the jury may deem, from the Opinion of the Court. evidence and proofs, a fair and just compensation, with reference to the pecuniary injuries resulting from such death, to such next of kin, not exceeding ยง5000." The point of this instruction is the measure of damages,... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 636 pages
...measurement, and commits the question especially to the finding of the jury. The law provides, that " they are to give such damages as they shall deem a fair and just compensation." What the life of one person is worth, in a pecuniary sense, to another, is a question incapable, from... | |
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