Hay v Young

Hay v Young was a case heard by the British House of Lords in 1943 relating nervous shock, where a woman pregnant at the time of the incident sued for compensation after seeing blood after a motorcycle accident. The ruling was that whilst the damage was too severe to be recovered therefrom; she was not within geographical or physical distance of danger and thus that her injury was not foreseeable.[1]

References

  1. http://www.legalandlit.ca/summaries/first/torts/torts_sutherland_f05_5.doc


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