Schnable v. Providence Public Market

The first ground upon which the plaintiff bases his petition for a new trial is that the damages awarded by the jury are inadequate to compensate him for the loss sustained by the death of his child. The child was a boy of five years of age, and was killed by the falling upon him of a heavy box through the negligent handling thereof by the defendant’s servants ; and the jury assessed the plaintiff’s damages in the sum of $750.(1) The measure of damages in a case of this sort is the pecuniary loss which the parent sustains by reason of being dejxrived of the child’s services during his…