Rauhe v. Langeland Memorial Chapel

Plaintiff brought this action in the trial court for damages claiming extreme and prolonged anguish, pain and a resulting heart condition allegedly caused by defendant’s willful, fraudulent, and wanton acts concerning the disposition of plaintiff’s deceased son’s body.

Prior to his death plaintiff’s son entered into certain agreements with the University of Michigan Medical School to donate his body for research. It was his desire that the body be transported to the university at Ann Arbor by ambulance. This fact was allegedly made known to the plaintiff, to the defendant, and to the DeLong…