Legal Opinion
Dunahoo v. Bess
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided February 18, 1941PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAdams, J.
The plaintiff filed his declaration in two counts. The first is for breach of contract. The second is for simple negligence. Both counts allege in substance the death of plaintiff’s wife; the delivery of the body to the defendant, a skilled and licensed embalmer, for embalming and shipment. That compensation was charged and received and the contract was breached in that the body was embalmed in a careless and negligent manner causing plaintiff mortification wherefore he asked damages for mental anguish, cost of embalming and transportation to point of shipment.
The lower court was of the…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Larson v. ChaseSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1891
- Mentzer v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1895
- So Relle v. W. U. Telegraph Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1881
- Spiegel v. Evergreen Cemetery Co.Supreme Court of New Jersey · 1936
- International Ocean Telegraph Co. v. SaundersSupreme Court of Florida · 1893
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3Cited by31 opinions
- Kirksey v. JerniganSupreme Court of Florida · 1950
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- Williams v. City of MinneolaDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1991
- Myrtle S. Shull and Walter G. Shull v. Pilot Life Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1963
- Brown v. Matthews Mortuary, Inc.Idaho Supreme Court · 1990
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