113 Ill. App. 3d 1011 - Trotter v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet · McGee v. International Life Insurance · 20 Ill. 2d 406 - Dini v. Naiditch · 92 Ill. 2d 530 - Elliott v. Willis · 13 Ill. 2d 26 - Hall v. Gillins
Most-quoted passages
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“The supreme court has repeatedly held that a jury may award damages for such intangibles as the decedent's felicity and care as a father____ The court in Elliott thus concluded that if a child’s loss of felicity and care of a father are capable of evaluation as pecuniary injuries, it was compelled to conclude that the companionship and conjugal relationship of a spouse are equally compensable as pecuniary injuries. 92 Ill.2d 530, 538 [ 65 Ill.Dec. 852 , 442 N.E.2d 163 ]. We observe that if felicity and companionship, i.e., loss of society as between a decedent and his child ... or a decedent and his spouse, ... are capable of evaluation, the damages would be no less capable of evaluation where the decedent was a child and the survivors were the next of kin.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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