 | 1912 - 860 pages
...husband or wife and next of kin (section 1903). and they are to be a fair and just compensation for the decedent's death to the person or persons for whose benefit the action is brought (section 1904). L'nder these very general provisions of the statute it has been impossible for the... | |
 | Francis Buchanan Tiffany - 1913 - 734 pages
...the New York court,68 " 'the damages awarded to the plaintiff' are to be estimated on the basis of 'a fair and just compensation for the pecuniary injuries...persons for whose benefit the action is brought,' we think the injury is for a wrong done to the property, rights, or interests of the beneficiary, and... | |
 | Thomas Gaskell Shearman, Amasa Angell Redfield - 1913 - 798 pages
...holding that under section of New York Code •of Procedure providing that the damages awarded shall " be a fair and just compensation for the pecuniary...the person or persons for whose benefit the action was brought, it was error to permit the wife to prove the present worth of the gross amount deceased... | |
 | New York (State). Board of Statutory Consolidation - 1915 - 648 pages
...assessment 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...persons, for whose benefit the action is brought. If the decedent leaves surviving a father and a mother, the death of such father prior to the verdict... | |
 | New York (State) - 1916 - 1682 pages
...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...persons, for whose benefit the action is brought. If the decedent leaves surviving a father and a mother, the death of such father V< prior to the verdict... | |
 | New York (State), John T. Fitzpatrick - 1918 - 1906 pages
...upon a trial, or, where issues of fact are tried without a jury, the court or the referee, deems to bo a fair and just compensation for the pecuniary injuries,...persons, for whose benefit the action is brought. If the decedent leaves surviving a father and a mother, the death 'of such father prior to the verdict... | |
 | James Newton Fiero - 1919 - 1012 pages
...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...persons, for whose benefit the action is brought. If the decedent leaves surviving a father and a mother, the death of such father prior to the verdict... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature - 1919 - 1160 pages
...assessment, or \ipon 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...persons, for whose benefit the action is brought. If the decedent leaves surviving a father and a mother, the death of such father prior to the verdict... | |
 | New York (State). Department of Labor - 1919 - 1406 pages
...accident, without reference to negligence, while in the other the jury are permitted only to give " a fair and just compensation for the pecuniary injuries,...or persons for whose benefit the action is brought" (Code Civ. Proc. § 1904), and the amount is to be distributed as though it constituted a part of an... | |
 | 1921 - 1552 pages
...damages to be such sum as the jury deem to be a fair and just compensation for the pecuniary injury resulting from the decedent's death, to the person or persons for whose several benefit the action is brought, it Is held that the death of the first beneficiary in line of... | |
| |
... a fair and just compensation for the pecuniary injuries, resulting, from the decedent's death, to the person or persons for whose benefit the action is brought. 
