Spiegel v. Evergreen Cemetery Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Heher, J.

These actions sound in tort. Each state of demand pleads three asserted causes of action; and their gravamina are the willful and wanton breaches of what seem to be conceded duties, assumed at plaintiffs’ instance, first, to inter the remains of their deceased father in a lot in its cemetery reserved for the purpose “in a proper and decent manner,” and, second, to conduct the burial in plaintiffs’ presence.

The jury empanelled to try the common issues (the causes were tried together) returned verdicts for the plaintiffs; and from the consequent…