What is the meaning of the term "nervous shock"?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Rhodes Estate v. Canadian National Railway, 1990 CanLII 5401 (BC CA):
With respect, Lord Denning was giving his own meaning to the term “nervous shock”. It was not, I suggest, a meaning which anyone would have recognized at least until the decision in King v. Phillips.
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