Twyman v. Twyman

I join in the Court’s recognition of the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress. Unlike negligent infliction of emotional, distress, which we rejected in Boyles v. Kerr, 855 S.W.2d 593 (Tex.1993), recovery for intentional infliction of emotional distress is permitted in almost every other state. While not free from conceptu*627al difficulties, this cause of action has proved useful because it “provides a convenient mechanism for achieving a just result in a given case without either dissembling about the facts, manipulating doctrine, or creating new rules regulating the underlying…