Bass v. Nooney Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• applying the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur to case involving mental distress resulting from being trapped in a stalled elevator, and rejecting the requirement of physical injury to recover for negligent infliction of emotional distress
• applying the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur to case involving mental distress resulting from being trapped in a stalled elevator, and rejecting the requirement of physical injury to recover for negligent infliction of emotional distress
• applying res ipsa to a case of an elevator stalled between floors
• hospital records and attending psychiatrists’ testimony showed plaintiff suffered acute anxiety after being trapped in elevator
• the emotional distress or mental injury must be medically diagnosable and must be of sufficient severity so as to be medically significant
• the emotional distress or mental injury must be medically diagnosable and must bé of sufficient severity so as to be medically significant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).