Hassard v. Lehane
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Mary Hassard, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of New York on the 28th day of April, 1910, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of plaintiff’s case on a trial at the New York Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Lattghlih, J.:
This is an action by a parent to recover damages for the wrongful and unlawful dissection of the remains of her son, and for the wrongful and unlawful removal and detention of parts of the remains. On the 2d day of April, 1907, one Francis Hassard, the plaintiff’s son, a coach driver of the age of twenty-eight years, while driving a coach returning from a funeral, was thrown from the coach in One Hundred and Sixth street, in the borough of Manhattan, New York, by an obstruction projecting from a building that was *425being erected adjacent to the street. He was removed to a drug…
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