Dunbar v. Strimas

OPINION

FRANKS, Judge.

Plaintiffs sued to recover compensatory and punitive damages for alleged “severe emotional distress” inflicted upon plaintiff, Delana Dunbar, by defendant’s course of conduct which plaintiffs alleged “constituted outrageous conduct.”

Acting on a motion to dismiss filed by defendant after each side filed affidavits, the trial judge dismissed the suit on the grounds: “that the bill of complaint does not state a cause of action based upon outrageous conduct” and, apparently, on the ground of privileged conduct, i.e., “no cause of action exists against this…