Stensto v. Sunset Memorial Park, Inc.
Missouri Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Judge.
All parties 1 have appealed in this court-tried case challenging the actions of Savage, as an individual and a trustee, and the various corporate defendants in the operation of Sunset Memorial Park and Mausoleum, a cemetery.
Grace Stensto is a lot owner in the cemetery. She is also the president of St. Louis Wilbert Vault Company. Wilbert and Nor-walk Vault Company of Missouri are companies engaged in the sale of vaults and crypts exclusively to funeral directors on an “at need” basis (after death). Between them they have approximately 80% of the vault and crypt business in the…
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