Louis Caputzal, Plaintiff-Respondent v. the Lindsay Company, a Body Corporate and/or Union Tank Car Company, a Body…

Summary

The Supreme Court of New Jersey reversed the Appellate Division and reinstated the Law Division’s grant of summary judgment for the defendants. The Court held that a plaintiff cannot recover for a heart attack caused solely by emotional shock from discolored water, because no duty of care existed and the injury was an extraordinary, unforeseeable consequence. The Court also found the Appellate Division erred in applying the Falzone precedent too broadly.