Leggett v. Gibson-Hart-Durden Funeral Home, Inc.

Evans, Judge.

The plaintiff filed a suit in tort against an incorporated funeral home, based upon injuries and damage to her when she discovered, upon the exhumation of her late husband’s body from its grave, that the defendant had not interred him in the manner in which it had been engaged to do. The defendant filed an answer, denying the material allegations of the complaint. Thereafter it filed a motion for summary judgment, contending that plaintiff was barred because of a previous judgment, wherein defendant had recovered from the plaintiff in a suit on account for the funeral bill in…