James Clark McReynolds

“ By pecuniary loss is meant such loss as may be compensated for in money. In answering special issue No. 7, you will take into consideration the contribution of money and other pecuniary benefits, if any, which the evidence may show that said surviving wife and child would have received from him after the time of his death, if he had continued to live. * * * In assessing the damages, if any, you will confine yourselves solely to the determination of the pecuniary and monetary interest, if any, that the plaintiff and her child had in the continued life of deceased. ”

“ The interpretation approved by us has become an integral part of the statute. It should be accepted and followed.
The judgment below is reversed, and the cause will be remanded to the Court of Civil Appeals, Third Supreme Judicial District, state of Texas, for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion. ”