Payne v. Chandler

1. The mere stimulation of a person’s senses as a result of a negligent act of another, which causes no actual physical or material damage, but only an unpleasant sensation, is injuria sine damno. Where, through the negligence of a dentist while operating in the mouth of a patient, the patient is caused to swallow a bitter and ill-tasting liquid, but sustains no ill effect therefrom other than the disagreeable *386stimulation of tlie patient’s sense of taste, the patient has suffered no actionable damage.

Decided April 21, 1930. Louis II. Foster, for plaintiff. Bryan & MiddlebrooTcs, for defendant.