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· 11/17/1959

Strazza v. McKittrick

Citations

  • 146 Conn. 714
  • 156 A.2d 149
  • 1959 Conn. LEXIS 236

How courts have described this case

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

  • prohibiting recovery to a plaintiff who perceived serious injury to family member
  • ‘‘there can be no recovery for nervous shock and men- tal anguish caused by the sight of injury or threatened harm to another’’
  • subsequently overruled to the extent that it conflict's with the courts's adoption of the bystander emotional distress cause of action in Clohessy v. Bachelor, 237 Conn. 31 , 675 A.2d 852 (1996)
  • mother's nervous shock resulting from fear of injury to her child after a truck had run into a porch on which he mother, who had heard the crash from inside the house, had told the child to wait

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Judges: Baldwin, King, Mellitz, Muephy, Shea

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