 The damages awarded to the plaintiff may be such a sum as the jury, upon a writ of inquiry, or upon a trial, or, where issues of fact are tried without a jury, the court or the referee, deems to be a fair and just compensation for the pecuniary injuries,...  Laws of the State of New York - Page 664by New York (State) - 1935Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Asbury Joyce, Howard Clifford Joyce - 1903 - 1076 pages
...New York statute * the measure of damages is, as we have elsewhere stated "such a sum " as is deemed to be "a fair and just compensation for the pecuniary injuries resulting from the death " and so reads' the North Carolina enactment.43 And this provision excludes the recovery of exemplary... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - 1903 - 782 pages
...jury from the real duty that is imposed upon them by the statute, and that is to fix what they deem a fair and just compensation for the pecuniary injuries resulting from the decedent's death. The amount that would be required to procure for the deceased a certain annuity for his life, free... | |
 | 1903 - 1254 pages
...jury from the real duty that is imposed upon them by the statute, and that is, to fix what they deem a fair and just compensation for the pecuniary injuries resulting from the decedent's death. The amount that would be required to procure for the de. ceased a certain annuity for his life, free... | |
 | New York (State) - 1904 - 1624 pages
...by ch. 256 of 1849, and by ch. 78 of 1870. Am d by ch. 515 of 1904. In effect Sept. i, { 19O4. Id.; amount of recovery. The damages awarded to the plaintiff...or persons for whose benefit the action is brought. When final judgment for the plaintiff is rendered, the clerk must add to the sum so awarded, interest... | |
 | New York (State) - 1904 - 1696 pages
...[ Vm'il, 1895.] Id.; amount of recovery. The damages awarded to the plaintiff may be such n sum ae the jury upon a writ of inquiry, or upon a trial,...persons, for whose benefit the action is brought. When final judgment for the plaintiff is rendered, the clerk must add to the sum so awarded, interest... | |
 | 1904 - 1004 pages
...action for Injuries causing death, that a recovery could be had for such amount as the Jury deemed to be a fair and Just compensation for the "pecuniary...the person or persons for whose benefit the action was brought etc., is general and ambiguous, and It might be said to include mental suffering. Hence... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - 1904 - 770 pages
...(Code Civ. Proc. § 1903.) " The damages awarded to the plaintiff may be such a sum as the jury * * * deems to be a fair and just compensation for the pecuniary Injuries resulting from the decedents death to theperson or persons for whose benefit the action is brought." (Code Civ. Proc.... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1906 - 1144 pages
...commissions of plaintiff on the residue. Section 1904 defines the precise nature of the recovery as "a fair and just compensation for the pecuniary injuries,...persons, for whose benefit the action is brought. ' ' Section 1905 reads : "The term 'next of kin,' as used in the foregoing sections, has the meaning... | |
 | 1906 - 1314 pages
...distributed as unbequeathed assets; section 1904 declares that the damages may be such as the jury deems Just compensation for the pecuniary Injuries resulting from the decedent's death to the person for whose benefit the action was brought ; and sections 1905 and 1870 define "next of kin" to Include... | |
 | New York (State) - 1907 - 1774 pages
...as am'd by L. 1849 and 1870; L. 1904, ch. 615. la effect Sept. 1, 1904. i mol. [Am'd, 18O5.] Id. | y; breach o¡ a promise to marry; misconduct or negtect...thereof lias been concealed, removed or disposed of When final judgment for the plaintiff is rendered, the clerk must add to the sum so awarded, interest... | |
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