Landrum v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc.

PER CURIAM,

We deny certiorari. The order below, which, inter alia, provides for the autopsy of the body of the plaintiff in the event of his death during the pendency of this litigation,1 does not depart from the essential requirements of the law. Instead, the order is entirely consistent with the longstanding principle that

*657“[t]he exhumation or the autopsy of a corpse, when useful to ascertain facts in litigation, should of course be performed. Reverence for the memory of those who have departed does not require us to abdicate the high duty of doing justice to the living_”

J. Wigmore, Evidence…