Lewis v. Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Lucille Lewis (plaintiff) was stuck in a stalled apartment-building elevator for forty minutes, fearing suffocation and serious injury, and the incident allegedly caused her unstable angina and aggravated her preexisting heart disease and hypertension. She sued Westinghouse Electric (defendant), the elevator's servicing company, and the building's owner for negligent infliction of emotional distress; the trial court dismissed her suit for failing to state a cognizable claim, and Lewis appealed.