THACKER v. WARD

No. 472.

140 S.E.2d 23 (1965)

263 N.C. 594

Paul E. THACKER v. Hurshel E. WARD, Jr., and William C. Markham, Jr., t/a Ward-Markham Co., and Billy Sanford McCoy.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 29, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Yarborough, Blanchard & Tucker, Douglass & Douglass, Raleigh, for plaintiff.

Smith, Leach, Anderson & Dorsett, Raleigh, for defendants.


SHARP, Justice.

This appeal involves only a question of pleading, not the right of a plaintiff to recover for emotional disturbances precipitated by physical injuries. Upon proper allegations and medical proof as to causation, it is generally held that recovery for such a disturbance may be had. Williamson v. Bennett, 251 N.C. 498, 112 S.E.2d 48, (recovery denied because no actual physical injuries...

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