Hovis v. City of Burns

This is an action for damages for emotional shock and mental anguish claimed to have been suffered by plaintiff when the defendant city disinterred the remains of her husband. The defendant operated a cemetery which served not only the city of Burns but Har-ney County as well. Plaintiff purchased from the city the right to have her husband’s remains buried in a plot in this cemetery. The city mistakenly buried the body in the Wrong plot. Subsequently, without permission from or notification to plaintiff, the city disinterred the remains and moved them to the proper plot. The trial resulted iu…