Sworski v. Simons

1 Reported in 293 N.W. 309. Plaintiffs sue for wrongful interference with their right to the body of their son Clifford, who committed suicide in the Chaska county jail on the morning of May 21, 1938. No question is raised as to the right of both parents to maintain the action. Defendant Simons is the coroner of the county, and defendant Weller is an undertaker at Chaska. The complaint alleges that defendants without authority from plaintiffs unlawfully, willfully, and maliciously took possession of Clifford's dead body, trespassed on the body by unlawfully embalming it in violation of law,…