Legal Opinion
Flores v. Baca
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided February 23, 1994No. 20782, 20790PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RANSOM, Justice.
Hipólito Flores died on July 9, 1989, survived by his widow, Maria Luisa Flores, and by thirteen children. A daughter, Rachel Ramirez, contracted with Sam Baca, doing business as Baca’s Funeral Chapels, to prepare Hipolito’s body and to perform funeral and burial services. Hipolito’s body was exhumed for autopsy two weeks after interment, at which time the family discovered that the lower half of the body had not been embalmed. Maria and the children sued Baca on claims of breach of contract, negligence, fraud, intentional infliction of emotional distress, gross…
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