Phillips v. Newport Et Ux.

Elam J. Newport and Ms wife, Marian Newport, brought this suit against H. Dayton PMllips and Garner Robinson, doing business as Phillips-Robinson & Company, to recover compensatory and punitive damages for an alleged unauthorized autopsy upon the body of plaintiffs’ infant son; Defendants pleaded not guilty. Judgment for plaintiffs was entered upon a verdict of the jury in the sum of $2,000 for compensatory damages and $2,000 for punitive damages, making a total judgment of $4,000. Defendants appealed in error to this court.

The assignments of error raised five questions which we state…