Carlinville National Bank v. Rhoads

The plaintiff-appellant, Lucile Stephenson, appeals the dismissal by the Circuit Court of Macoupin County on November 16, 1977, of counts V, VI, and IX of her amended complaint seeking compensatory damages for emotional distress and psychiatric trauma sustained by her as a result of witnessing her husband’s death allegedly caused by the negligence of the defendant, Kent Y. Rhoads, an agent of the other named defendants.

In the complaint, plaintiff alleged that on August 14,1976, her husband, Harold W. Stephenson, was driving their automobile in which she was a passenger on a blacktop north of…