Ryckeley v. Callaway

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• affirming trial court's grant of motion to dismiss plaintiffs' emotional distress claim arising from defendants' damaging of private burial ground
• evaluating exception with respect to an intentional infliction of emotional distress claim
• “[E]ven malicious, willful or wanton conduct will not warrant a recovery for the infliction of emotional distress if the conduct was not directed toward the plaintiff.”
• even if defendants’ destruction of cemetery was “malicious, wilful or wanton,” so that plaintiffs did not need to show physical impact, plaintiffs could not recover for intentional infliction of emotional harm where defendant’s conduct was not directed toward plaintiffs
• wilful act must be directed at plaintiff

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