Humphreys v. Bennett Oil Corporation

ODOM, Justice.

This is a suit for damages, grounded on allegations that plaintiffs have suffered intensely from nervous and physical shock, mental anguish, pain, worry, and humiliation, resulting from the desecration and disturbance by defendants of the graves and tombs of two of their near relatives and the profanation of the entire cemetery where these relatives are buried, which cemetery to them is a sacred place.

Plaintiffs allege that they buried their father, William Blanton Humphreys, and their sister, Mrs. Melissa Humphreys Macy, in the Evangeline Cemetery in Acadia Parish in the early…