State v. Gomez-Duran

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the pecuniary “injury for which damages can be recovered must be wholly to the beneficiaries themselves, and it is limited to the pecuniary effect of the death upon them” (emphases added)
• stating that, to the extent that the beneficiaries’ “condition was made less fortunate pecuniarily by the wrongful act or default of the defendant, they are entitled to recover enough 23 damages to make them ‘a fair and just compensation’” (emphases added)
• “The right to any compensation [in a wrongful death action] is wholly created by the statute, and the amount of the compensation is to be measured solely by the standard prescribed by the statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).