Tort Law - Negligence - Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress - Bystander Recovery

Authors

Samuel F. Reynolds Jr.

Abstract

The Supreme Judicial Court of Maine has held that a mother who became emotionally distressed as a result of seeing her infant son gag and choke on foreign material contained in baby food asserted a valid cause of action for negligent infliction of emotional distress.

Culbert v. Sampson's Supermarkets, Inc., 444 A.2d 433 (Me. 1982).

First Page

797

Recommended Citation

Samuel F. Reynolds Jr., Tort Law - Negligence - Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress - Bystander Recovery, 21 Duq. L. Rev. 797 (1983).
Available at: https://dsc.duq.edu/dlr/vol21/iss3/11