Winkler v. Maxwell

Weaver, J.—

The plaintiff alleges that her husband, George Winkler, died at a hospital in the city of Keokuk, and that immediately after his decease the defendants Hawkes & Ackley, with indecent haste, and without any authority therefor, removed the body to their undertaking rooms, in said city, where the defendants T. J. Maxwell and John T. Maxwell, with the assistance of Hawkes & Ackley,' wrongfully mutilated said body and removed some of its parts, and that, by reason of such wrongful acts, plaintiff has been made to suffer much physical and mental anguish, for which she asks to recover…