Blanchard v. Westview Cemetery, Inc.

Felton, Justice.

The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of Fulton Superior Court granting a summary judgment for the defendant, appellee here, in the action of the plaintiff, Mrs. Hazel Blanchard, appellant here, predicated on an intentional tort in moving the body of her late husband, Paul Blanchard, and the monument, from one grave site to another. Blanchard v. Westview Cemetery, 124 Ga. App. 195 (183 SE2d 399).

We granted the plaintiff’s application for the writ of certiorari, and now we reverse. As was ably pointed out in the dissenting opinions of Judge Pannell (Division 1 of which was…