Law and Practice in Accident Cases (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...years old;53 $2,500 for death of a boy, sewn years old;"M $10,000 for the death of a brakeman, where negligence was wilful;'"s $8,000 for death of a husband; 56 $2,000 for death of a boy, eighteen months old;67 $10,000 for death of a man whose expectancy of life was forty-two years, and his earnings $650 annually,58 $3,000 for death of son, twentyeight years old, '59 $4,995 for death of a man, twenty-eight years old;"0 $2,000 for death of son;61 $3,550 for death of son, twenty-two and one-half years old,"2 $1,500 for death of daughter;63 $2,400 for death of son, twenty-one years old, healthy and industrious;64 $4,200 for death of son, twenty-six years old;66 $3,750 for death of son, thirty-five years old, who had been a judge;66 $1,000 for death of widow, sixty-one years old;67 $3,500 for death of girl, aged fourteen years;88 $5,000 for death of engineer;69 $1,000 for-death of unmarried n1an, no evidence of pecuniary contribution to relatives and next of kin;70 $7,500 for death of married man, fifty-two years old;71 $800 for death of a child less than four years old;72 $2,500 for death of a workman, fifty-five years old, in fair health, with a large family, who could earn $2.25 per day;"3 $8,000 for death of a man with thirty-one years of expectation of life," $15,000, deceased was careful, and defendant's engineer very reckless;75 $5,000 for death of a healthy man, forty-eight years old, who left a wife and three children,"6 $5,000 for death of laboring man, thirty-six years old, who left a wife and six young children;" $3,500 for death of a fireman thirty-nine years old;78 $5,000 for death of man thirty-one years old, who was sober and industrious, who had lived separate and...