Lyons v. Zale Jewelry Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that where defendant verbally abused and threatened mother for purposes of enforcing a debt owed by her son to defendant, the conversation was entirely inflammatory and non-investigative
• holding plaintiffs allegations of extreme nervousness and severe headaches, such that she was physically and emotionally unable to work and earn her livelihood, sufficient to withstand a demurrer
• “It is clear, however that from the very earliest times, the law has allowed recovery for mental distress under some circumstances, where the act of defendant producing such distress also involved an independent tort of some kind, such as ... injury to reputation____”
• “It is clear … that from the very earliest times the law has allowed recovery for mental distress … where the act of the defendant producing such distress also involved an independent tort, such as … a negligently caused physical injury ….”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).