Millington v. Kuba

McGIVERIN, Chief Justice.

Plaintiffs, Maryrose M. Millington and Thomas Millington, Jr., brought this action to recover damages for the emotional distress they allegedly suffered as a result of the alleged wrongful cremation of the body of their father, Thomas Henry Millington, Sr., by the defendant funeral home directors, John A. Kuba and Edward R. Kuba, Sr., and the Kuba Funeral Home. 1 Kubas cremated the plaintiffs’ father’s body on the authorization of only one of the deceased’s children, Kimberly Kleckner-Millington, and in spite of the contrary and known instructions of the plaintiffs.

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