State v. Gateway Mortuaries, Inc.

The Gateway Mortuaries, Incorporated, a Montana corporation, and Pat R. Gagner, its agent, have appealed from a judgment of conviction on a charge of violating the provisions of Chapter 88 of the Laws of 1929. The first section of Chapter 88, hereafter referred to as the Act, reads as follows:

“All written contracts or agreements hereafter made for the performance of personal services in connection with the preparation for burial or cremation, or the burial or cremation, of dead human bodies, made prior to the death of the persons whose bodies are to be buried or cremated, when said written…