Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Co. v. Lowe
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of the first district of Hinds county. Hon. J. B. Chrisman, Judge. Action by a father to recover damages for the death of his infant daughter. , The injury complained of in this case occurred at a crossing-in a populous portion of the city of Jackson, and on one of its most frequented streets, several of which the track crosses in that portion of the city.
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From the circuit court of the first district of Hinds county. Hon. J. B. Chrisman, Judge. Action by a father to recover damages for the death of his infant daughter. , The injury complained of in this case occurred at a crossing-in a populous portion of the city of Jackson, and on one of its most frequented streets, several of which the track crosses in that portion of the city. At the point in question the track is laid in the middle of and along one of the streets that runs at right angles Avith those that it crosses. Between this point and the next cross street to the east thereof, there…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
The first and second assignments of error are without merit.. These go to the action of the court in sustaining the appellee’s objection to evidence going to show at what age the child killed would have become a source of revenue to the father, and what would have been the expense incurred by the father in maintaining the child up to that age. It may be, under that low and sordid figment of the common law which professes to give compensation to a parent for the mere pecuniary value of the lost services of a child destroyed by the fault of another, and which regards the destruction of the life…
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