Brown v. Ellis

This is an action by an employee of General Dynamics against his supervisor for the inten tional infliction of emotional distress. The plaintiff claims to have been employed as a photographer by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics for twenty-three years. In his complaint, he alleges that he suffers from a fear of heights, a disability all other employees of the photography department were aware of and, although not contractually excluded from participating in work assignments involving photography at such heights, the plaintiff’s previous supervisors accommodated his disability by…