Texas Supreme Court

Standard Fruit and Vegetable Co., Inc., Bright Truck Leasing Corporation, and James William Marshall, Petitioners…

December 31, 199842 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 274

Summary

The Texas Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals and held that Johnson could not recover for intentional infliction of emotional distress because the tort requires that severe emotional distress be the intended or primary consequence of the defendant's conduct; consequently, summary judgment for the defendants was proper.