McDonald v. Goodman

STEWART, Justice.

Appellant, Pearlie McDonald, instituted this action in the Second Division of the Common Pleas Branch of the Jefferson Circuit Court against appellees, Dr. Arthur O. Goodman, Dr. Ira N. Kerns and the American Radiator and Standard Sanitary-Corporation, to recover $50,000 compensatory damages and $25,000 punitive damages from each of them, for mental suffering resulting to her by an alleged illegal and unauthorized autopsy which appellees, she avers, caused to he performed upon the remains of her deceased husband. From a directed verdict in favor of ap-pellees by the trial…