Gonsalves

Plaintiffs, suing as administrators of the estate of Manuel Gonsalves, deceased, brought their action against defendant for having negligently occasioned his death by putting him to work in an unsafe place. So far as concerns this appeal the negligence is conceded, it being stated in the transcript that “evidence was introduced by plaintiffs which, for the purpose of any appeal from the judgment herein, defendant admits tended to prove and was sufficient to prove that the death of Manuel Gonsalves was caused by the negligence of defendant.” The complaint charged that the deceased at the time of his death was unmarried, that he died intestate, and left surviving him as his sole heirs at law and next of kin Antonio Gonsalves, his father, and Isabell Gonsalves, his mother, “both of whom at the said time of his death were dependent upon him for their support and maintenance.” Further the complaint alleged that the action was brought for and on behalf of the deceased’s heirs to recover the damage occasioned to them by his death. The jury rendered a verdict for plaintiffs in the sum of one thousand dollars, and they submitted to a reduction and remission of this verdict in the sum of…