Bernstein v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

This is an application for an order of this court requiring the plaintiff to permit the body of her husband, Charles K. Bernstein, to be exhumed and to permit the defendant an opportunity to examine the body of the insured, Charles K. Bernstein, and to make an autopsy upon the same.

The law throws around the bodies of deceased human beings a protection even in their graves. The right of Christian sepul*517ture includes the right to have one’s remains respected in his or her last resting place. Many circumstances arise from time to time necessitating a disturbance of the repose of the dead, but it…