Legal Opinion
Burns v. Anchorage Funeral Chapel
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided March 22, 1972No. 1465PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RABINOWITZ, Justice.
Gordon Burns, as administrator of the Estate of Wilma Fuglemsmo, brought suit against the Anchorage Funeral Chapel in the superior court. In Count I of his complaint Burns stated a claim for relief for wrongful death asserting that Anchorage Funeral had prematurely embalmed Wilma Fuglemsmo. This claim was tried to a jury which returned a verdict in favor of Anchorage Funeral. In Count II the administrator alleged a claim for wrongful interference with the right of the next of kin to preserve the body of the deceased. This count stated that Anchorage Funeral had embalmed…
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