Mattingly v. Sheldon Jackson College

How courts have described this case

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• noting requirement that plaintiff and victim be closely related and that shock must follow closely on heels of accident
• affirming the rejection of an NIED claim where plaintiff was 150 miles away when he learned of the accident injuring his son and had no \sudden sensory observation\ of his injured son
• affirming the rejection of an NIED claim where plaintiff was 150 miles away when he learned of the accident injuring his son and had no \sudden sensory observation\ of his injured son
• permitting a plaintiff to recover for emotional distress where the plaintiff observes a loved one, physically injured as a result of the defendant's negligence, \more or less contemporaneously with ... learning of the nature of the victim's injuries\
• following People Express Airlines, Inc., and holding that drain cleaning company could bring action for economic damages, such as lost business income and expenses, incurred when trench dug by defendants collapsed on its employees
• \There was no sudden sensory observation of his injured son.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).