• 1997 - Extreme and Outrageous Conduct Defined
  • C-20.15
    • Emotional Distress
    • Tort Liability
    • Tort Liability
  • Extreme and outrageous conduct is so outrageous in character, and so extreme in degree, as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency and to be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable.

     

    Extreme and outrageous conduct is conduct which would cause an average member of the community to immediately react with outrage.

     

    Extreme and outrageous conduct is not mere insults, indignities, threats, annoyances, petty oppressions, or other trivialities. All persons must necessarily be expected and required to be hardened to a certain amount of rough language and to occasional acts that are definitely inconsiderate and unkind. There is not a remedy in every case in which a person's feelings are hurt.

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    • Muchow v. Lindblad, 435 NW2d 918 (ND 1989)
    • Sec. Nat'l. Bank, Edgeley v. Wald, 536 NW2d 924 (ND 1995)
    • Swenson v. N. Crop Ins., Inc., 498 NW2d 174 (ND 1993)
  • Notes: 2006 - reviewed with no changes