Gadbury v. Bleitz

This is an action for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff in January, 1922. The cause was tried to a jury, and at the close of plaintiff’s case, an order of dismissal was entered by the trial court. The facts, as shown by the plaintiff’s witnesses, are substantially as follows:

The plaintiff is the mother of one Theodore Gradbury, who died on December 20, 1922. The plaintiff engaged the defendant, who is in the undertaking business, to conduct the funeral and cremate the body. The funeral was held on December 24 at the funeral parlors of the defendant, and the charge…