Freeman v. City of Pasadena

KILGARLIN, Justice.

This case presents the question whether bystander recovery for mental anguish extends to a stepparent who neither saw nor otherwise contemporaneously perceived the accident in which his stepsons were injured. Based on a jury verdict, the trial court awarded damages. The court of appeals reversed and rendered judgment that the stepfather take nothing. 731 S.W.2d 590. We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.

John Freeman and others sued the City of Pasadena for damages arising out of an automobile accident in which two of Freeman’s stepsons were injured (one later died…