King v. Higgins

PER Cueiam.

“It is almost the universal opinion that recovery may be had for mental or emotional disturbance in ordinary negligence cases where, coincident in time and place with the occurrence producing the mental stress, some actual physical impact or genuine physical injury also resulted directly from defendant’s negligence.” Williamson v. Bennett, 251 N.C. 498, 132 S.E. 2d 48. See also King v. Britt, 267 N.C. 594, 148 S.E. 2d 594. In the present case the jury was instructed that the plaintiff, if entitled to recover at all, was to be awarded in a lump sum a fair and reasonable compensation…