Elliott v. Willis

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• distinguishing between damages for emotional distress brought on by the decedent’s death and damages for the benefits of companionship that a widow would have enjoyed
• rejecting plaintiffs' claim that \prematurely paid\ state and federal inheritance taxes assessed following death of their decedent constituted compensable pecuniary losses under Illinois law
• “[T]he term ‘pecuniary injuries’ is broadly construed and a widow is presumed to incur such losses without proof of actual loss.”
• pecuniary injury includes loss of consortium suffered by widowed spouse

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).