Oakes v. Maine Central Railroad
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On motion and exceptions by defendant. Exceptions overruled. Action .to recover damages for death of the plaintiff’s intestate under Stat. of 1891, c. 124, for the exclusive benefit of Roland E. Oakes, son of the deceased mother. The action was defaulted and the case submitted to the jury for the assessment of damages. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $8500. Exceptions: Hall v. G-alveston, etc. JR,. B. Co., 39 Fed.
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On motion and exceptions by defendant. Exceptions overruled. Action .to recover damages for death of the plaintiff’s intestate under Stat. of 1891, c. 124, for the exclusive benefit of Roland E. Oakes, son of the deceased mother. The action was defaulted and the case submitted to the jury for the assessment of damages. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $8500. Exceptions: Hall v. G-alveston, etc. JR,. B. Co., 39 Fed. Rep. 18; Dickenson v. Fitchburg, 13 Gray, 546; Fowler v. Co. Com. 6 Allen, 92; Kent v. Whitney, 9 Allen, 62, 63; Wyman v. Lexington, etc. B. B. Co., 13 Met. 316,…
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
Action under the statute of 1891, c. 124, for the exclusive benefit of Roland E. Oakes the child of plaintiff’s intestate.
First. Defendant excepts to the admission of the testimony of Mrs. Clark as to the amount of wages which the deceased was receiving when employed as a milliner some eleven years before her death.
The damages in this class of cases can never be the subject of precise mathematical demonstration or calculation. They are based upon the probabilities of the future which can only be shown by the facts of the past. Evidence is received in regard to many matters which in other…
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