Court Opinion

ID: 9471590
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 03:36:15.977903+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:42:28.893798
License: Public Domain

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
PER CURIAM.
This case is before the Court on the plaintiff-appellant’s petition for rehearing.
In his petition for rehearing, plaintiff calls attention to the December 21,1983 decision of the New Mexico Supreme Court in Ramirez v. Armstrong, 100 N.M. 538, 673 P.2d 822. This was a bystander case in which children of Santana Ramirez sued for mental distress resulting from seeing their father killed when struck by a car. The court adopted standards to apply to actions for negligent infliction of emotional distress to bystanders. The third of those factors is, “[t]here must be some physical manifestation of, or physical injury to the plaintiff resulting from the emotional injury.” In the case at bar the plaintiff was not a bystander and did not allege any physical injury. Accordingly, he did not satisfy factor 3 and the case was properly dismissed.