This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol4 Torts, Damages, Domestic Relations", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
A child may recover for the death of parent. Such recovery will be limited to the actual value of the support which the child would have been liable to receive from parent, and in most states the total recovery for the death of a person is limited either to $5,000 or $10,000.
9 Hearsh vs. Sybert-Cheves L.
( S C) 177 10 Dixon vs. Bell, 5 M. & S., 198.
11 Grimmell vs. Wells, 7 M. & G., 1033, 49 E. C. L., 1033, Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law, Vol. XXI, p. 1045.
 
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