Legal Opinion

Ronick v. Lynn

Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Washington County

Decided September 28, 1982No. 63-82-287Published

1Opinion of the Court

TERPUTAC, J.,

There is no pellucid explanation for the type of litigation before the court. This case involves the attempt by one side of the family filing suit to compel the disinterment of the body of ayoung man killed in an untoward vehicle accident and to cause his body to be reinterred in another burial plot in the same cemetery; it concerns the unflinching opposition of the other side of the family seeking to prevent reinterment; and it places the court in the unenviable position of trying to determine what course we should take. On the one side of the family are arrayed those who…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Pettigrew v. PettigrewSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
  2. Novelli v. CarrollSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1980
  3. Datz v. Dougherty, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County1941

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