Covert v. Kennecott Copper Corporation

CROCKETT, Chief Justice:

Plaintiff Ennis D. Covert sues to recover damages for her emotional distress she alleges resulted from the mutilation of her husband’s body which she avers was caused by the defendant’s negligence in removing him from where he had been buried in an ore slide at the defendant’s concentrator plant at Magna, Utah. Inasmuch as her husband, Leonard Covert, was engaged in his duties as defendant’s employee at the time of the accident, there is no question involved here as to any alleged negligence in the cause of his death, nor as to the right of plaintiff and his children…