Brooks v. Decker

*367 OPINION

NIX, Chief Justice.

This appeal presents an issue identical to that recently addressed by this court in Mazzagatti v. Everingham, 512 Pa. 266, 516 A.2d 672 (1986), wherein we held that a plaintiff who does not experience a contemporaneous observance of tortious injury to a close relative does not state a cause of action for the negligent infliction of emotional distress under the parameters enunciated in Sinn v. Burd, 486 Pa. 146, 404 A.2d 672 (1979).

I

The facts of the instant case are similar to those of Mazzagatti, supra, in that the plaintiff-parent did not witness the accident…