Keasler v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.

Plaintiff here asserts that but for the accident to and consequent death of his mother caused by defendant’s negligence, the time for the payment of the two judgments aggregating $7,000 would have been deferred at least eight years, the mother’s then expectancy of life at her then age of seventy-one years, and that as a relative of the deceased he suffered as pecuniary injury resulting from her death the present worth of the interest he was required to pay upon the money he borrowed upon the so hastened death of the mother to pay these two judgments.

His action was properly maintained under…