Coleman & Coleman Enterprises, Inc. v. Waller Funeral Home

KITCHENS, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. This case concerns whether preneed contracts for funeral services were unilaterally transferable by customers from the original service provider, Waller Funeral Home (Waller), to another service provider, Coleman Funeral Home (Coleman). *312Customers who had contracted with Waller had prepaid the costs of their funeral services and merchandise, and Waller had placed their money in a trust maintained by the Mississippi Funeral Directors Association (hereinafter “the Trust”). Coleman, along with Aubrey Parham, who previously had contracted with Waller for…