Home Undertaking Co. v. Joliff

John C. Joliff died in a Seattle hospital on December 14, 1930. On the same day, his attending physician, Dr. Stone, who had been acquainted with the deceased for ten or twelve years, called respondent, requesting that it make arrangements for the funeral. Two or three years prior to this request, the deceased had favorably mentioned to Dr. Stone that the Home Undertaking Company as an institution would be a good place for a laboring man for such service, on account of its reasonableness. He had also, immediately prior to being taken to the. hospital, expressed to an intimate friend of many…