Personal injury

A hurt or damage done to a man's person, such as a cut or bruise, a broken limb, or the like, as distinguished from an injury to his property or his reputation. The phrase is chiefly used in connection with actions of tort for negligence.

Norris v. Grove, 100 Mich. 256. 58 N. W. 1006; State v. Claybome, 14 Wash. 622, 45 Pac. 303 ; Terre Haute Bl. Rv. Co. v. Lauer, 21 Ind. App. 466, 52 N. E. 703.

But the term is also used (chiefly in statutes) in a much wider sense, and as including any injury which is an invasion of personal rights, and in this signification it may include such injuries as libel or slandqr, criminal conversation with a wife, seduction of a daughter, and mental suffering.

See Delamater v. Russell, 4 How. Prae. (N. Y.) 234; Garrison v. Burden. 40 Ala. 516; McDonald v. Brown, 23 R. I. 546, 51 Atl. 213, 58 In R, A. 768, 91 Am. St. Rep. 659; Morton v. Western Union Tel. Co.., 130 N. C. 299, 41 S. B. 484; Williams v. Williams, 20 Colo. 51. 37 Pan. 614; Hood v. Sudderth, 111 N. C. 215, 16 S. E. 397.