Mercado v. Transport of New Jersey

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Portee does not require close relative to witness accident causing alleged emotional injury
• permitted recovery by a mother who learned of the accident minutes after it happened, went to scene and saw her injured son in the street
• mother saw her child lying in the street a “very short time” after a car hit the child

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).