71 N.J.L. 59 | N.J. | 1904
The opinion of the court was delivered by
This action is brought by a father to recover damages for the death of his son. It is not an action brought under the Death act by an administrator. The declaration avers that the plaintiff’s son, an infant of the age of nine years, came in contact with a wire of the defendant company and was so injured that he died “on the day and year aforesaid;” and that, as the father of the deceased, he was obliged to pay the burial expenses and has been deprived of the services of the deceased “from the date .aforesaid for all times hereafter.” The only damages claimed by the declaration as the result of the injury are the burial expenses and the loss of service from the day of the decedent’s death.
We have recently held, in a similar ease, that there can be no recovery for burial expenses. Callaghan v. Lake Hopatcong Ice Co., 40 Vroom 100.
In the same case we held that the damages recovered by the father must be confined to the period of the son’s life.
There must be judgment for the defendant.