Hay v Young
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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.
House of Lords
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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.