Legal Opinion
Hood v. Spratt
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided April 5, 1978No. 50176PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
357 So.2d 135 (1978)
Adrienne Spratt HOOD
v.
Edith Tubb SPRATT.
No. 50176.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
April 5, 1978.
Burgin, Gholson, Hicks & Nichols, Dewitt T. Hicks, Jr., Columbus, for appellant.
J.O. Prude, Amory, for appellee.
Before PATTERSON, BROOM and BOWLING, JJ.
PATTERSON, Chief Justice, for the Court:
This is an appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court of Monroe County. It presents the issue of whether a surviving spouse can have the body of her deceased husband removed from his burial site to another over the objection of blood relatives.
Herschell D. Spratt, Sr. died quite suddenly in…
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