 In a civil Court the death of a human being could not be complained of as an injury; and in this case the damages to the plaintiff's wife must stop with the period of her existence.  California Legal Record - Página 3441878Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1849 - 808 páginas
...that the jury could only take into consideration the bruises which the plaintiff had himself received, and the loss of his wife's society, and the distress...of the accident till the moment of her dissolution. The damage, in other words, as to the plaintiff's wife, must stop with the period of her existence.1... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1851 - 836 páginas
...that the jury could only take into consideration the bruises which the plaintiff had himself received, and the loss of his wife's society, and the distress...of the accident till the moment of her dissolution. The damage, in other words, as to the plaintiffs wife, must stop with the period of her existence.1... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1868 - 610 páginas
...jury "they could only take into consideration the bruises which the plaintiff himself had sustained, and the loss of his wife's society, and the distress...suffered on her account from the time of the accident to the moment of her dissolution." "In a civil court, the death of a human being could not be complained... | |
 | Robert D. Handy, John H. Handy - 1855 - 638 páginas
...reported. In the latter year, Lord Ellenborough held in Baker vs. Bolton and others, 1 Camp. 493, "that in a civil court the death of a human being could not be complained of as an injury," and therefore the plaintiff's claim to damages for the loss of his wife, must stop with the period of her... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1859 - 720 páginas
...instructed the jury that they could only take into consideration the bruises inflicted on the plaintiff, and the loss of his wife's society, and the distress...account, from the time of the accident till the moment of dissolution. " In a civil court," he adds, " the death of a human being could not be complained of... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1859 - 616 páginas
...instructed the jury that they could only take into consideration the bruises inflicted on the plaintiff, and the loss of his wife's society, and the distress of mind he had Green agt. The Hudson River RR Co. suffered on her account from the time of the accident till the moment... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1865 - 646 páginas
...held, that the jury could take into consideration only the bruises which the plaintiff had sustained, and the loss of his wife's society, and the distress...suffered on her account, from the time of the accident to the time of her death. And he announced the principle of his decision, in these words : " In a civil... | |
 | 1898 - 562 páginas
...loss of service* of a minor child who is Instantly killed. The court £llenborough said that) 'Inn civil court the death of a human being could not be complained of as an Injury.' In adhering to the broad principle thus announced, Plgott, I!., In Osborn v. Olllett (1873), LI'. 8... | |
 | 1875 - 722 páginas
...opinion: " I must say, therefore, that Lord Ellenborough's unsupported nut prius declaration, that " in a civil court the death of a human being could not be complained of as an injury," opposed as it is to the expressed opinion of Comyn, (Comyn's Digest Trespass, b. 5) ; to the plainly... | |
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