The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-25
Children Have No Earning Capacity, Said Banks and Therefore No Money Loss Gould Be Shown and No Damages Claimed.
/" Any Man Who Says that I Am for the Corporations is a Demagogue,' Shrills House Leader As Bing- ham Asks Him for One Clean Page Defeated, 146 to 24.
Especial from United Press.

1 Especial from United Press) l Hartford, July 25-The order of tho i day in the House today was the fa- Vorable report in the Judiciary com
 mlttee on "an act concerning the limit of damages for causing death." Both old parties in their State platforms.
 last campaign, advocated the abolition
 of the s5,O00 limit in cases of deaths
 In industrial accidents. Six amend
 ments were offered to the bill. House
 Leader Banks stated that he under
 stood that the first thing to consider
 was amendment "A" offered by MT
 Ensign of Simsbury. providing that
 sne damages should not exceed $10,-
 oOO MT. Banks offered amendment
 "E', providing that any executor or administrator may recover from the party ssgally aA fault fos such injury Just damages with reference to the pecuniary injuries resulting from such death to the persons for whose bene- Tt such action is brought; and further that no action shall be brought upon this statute but within one year from the neglect complained of This was interpreted that no person could recover except there was pecunlary damages proved in case of death
 After both amendments had been read by. the clerk, Representative of Naugatuck, said that he was in hopes that MT. Banks would withdraw his amendment so that there would be one page in the legislative history of this session that would show absence of corporation favor.
 MT. Banks replied:
 There is nothing so cheap as the statement that I am for the corpora- | yho am for the corporations is a dema- yogue.
 T repeat again what I have said many times I have no political am- 'ltlons. am aware of what the | gentleman from Naugatuck is hinting u. lie reiers 10 my attitude on the public utilities bill. Well, I have said hat that bill was unconstitutional and ime will tell whether I'm right or vrong I cannot recall that I have yer defended a corporation. If myI ime had not been taken up in the legislature I would have appeared in everaI cases against the New York, Iew Haven 6 Hartford Railroad"
 Representative Banks then took in he bill proper. He said that five out the nine members of the Judiciary omm1ttee were in favor of substitut- lg $1O,O00 for the present s5,O0O death init.
 ! tHiHk IL IS r1gnr, said MT. Banks. when a man is killed upon whom thers are dependent: to provide for t Is family. The theory is to pay the l lmily what it has lost in money. hat is the pecuniary damages
 Referring to deaths of children in s le recent Federal Express wreck at [ ridgeport, he said that the companv l as not at fault for the failure of the : lgineer to slow down in taking the : ossover. I Children generally have no earning .pacity,' said Banks, ''and therefore, t ) pecuniary loss could have been < own, in which event I don't see how u images could be claimed II MT. Banks stated further that he u as willing to raise the limit to s1O providing that some rule of dam es could be inserted according to Il 1lch the courts could go on instruct [: 3 juries. IT Representative Meltzer of Rridee- o Tt opposed the Banks amendment I d said that if it passed it woulS rs can that damages could not be COL 1t ted in four-fifths of the cases The Banks amendment was over- DC lelmingly defeated by a vote of 14s '"
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