Galletta v. Hillcrest Abbey West, Inc.

Birdsong, Chief Judge.

This is a suit for fraud in the sale of a cemetery plot and for desecration of a grave. The appellants purchased a plot from the appellee in 1982 for interment of their infant daughter. In 1983, the appellee began construction of a mausoleum or “feature crypt” in the section where appellants’ daughter was buried. Appellants objected vehemently to placement of a mausoleum near the child’s grave. The *21appellants filed suit, contending it had been represented to them that a statue of a religious figure or similar feature would be erected on the then-existing base in the…