pecuniary injuries
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From 72 U.S. 90 - Railroad Company v. Barron · 1866Most cited · 152 citing opinions
They are confined to the pecuniary injuries resulting to the wife and next of kin, whereas if the deceased had survived, a wider range of inquiry would have been admitted. It would have embraced personal suffering as well as pecuniary loss, and there would have been no fixed limitation as to the amount.