Matthews v. Hicks, Adm'r.

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• applying precursor of current statutory definition of damages for wrongful death
• damages in wrongful death action, which may be brought for benefit of decedent’s children, may include ‘‘loss of deceased’s care, attention and society’’
• where the surviving wife had deserted the decedent and lived in adultery for two years, but returned to him over weekends about two weeks before his death

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).