Leong Ex Rel. Petagno v. Takasaki

*399.OPINION OF THE COURT BY

RICHARDSON, C. J.

Plaintiff-appellant Troy Leong, through his next friend Gail Petagno, brought this action to recover damages for nervous shock and psychic injuries suffered without accompanying physical impact or resulting physical consequences or manifestations thereof, when he witnessed his stepgrandmother, Mrs. Louise J. Pittala, being struck and killed by an automobile driven by defendant-appellee Dennis Takasaki. From the trial court’s grant of defendant’s motion for summary judgment, this appeal was taken.

I

At approximately 7:00 p.m. on the evening of January 7,…