Taylor v. Riggin

Terry, J.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

Under the Delaware statute the administrator may bring an action for the Deceased’s wrongful death and the measure of damages constituting the recovery was laid down in the case of Gismondi v. People’s Railway Company, 2 Boyce 577, 83 A. 136, 138, as follows:

“The measure of damages * * * is the sum which the jury may believe from the evidence the deceased would probably have earned during [his] life, and would have saved from [his] earnings and left as [his] estate, and which would have gone to [his] next of kin. In determining this sum, the jury…