McQueen v. Green

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• holding that sheep owners could not recovery damages for emotional distress against owners of dogs who had entered sheep owners' property and slaughtered sheep the previous day
• holding that sheep owners could not recovery damages for emotional distress against owners of dogs who had entered sheep owners’ property and slaughtered sheep the previous day
• acknowledging the “pragmatic judgements” in intentional infliction of emotional distress cases requiring “spaeial and temporal proximity” between the plaintiff and the “tortious act”
• finding no intent where defendant’s dogs entered plaintiffs land and killed sheep, where the evidence did not disclose the distance between the properties and how the dogs got on the plaintiffs land
• loss of companionship and society for loss of a sheep falls within loss of consortium, which limits recovery to death of persons

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