Shafer v. Willis

McCLOUD, Chief Justice.

Rita Shafer Willis sued Marada Jackie Joiner Shafer, Davis-Morris Funeral Home, and Eastlawn Memorial Park, alleging defendants wrongfully caused the body of plaintiff’s deceased father to be disinterred and removed from a grave in Brown County, and interred in a grave in Eastland County. Shafer filed a plea of privilege which was controverted. Willis failed to appear at the plea of privilege hearing and the court signed and entered an order sustaining Shafer’s plea of privilege on January 15, 1975. On March 5, 1975, Willis filed a motion to set aside the January 15,…