Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Love

Mr. Presiding Judge Harvey

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section A.

This suit was instituted by Tom Love, and his two sisters, Victoria Houston (a feme sole) and Cora Davis (a feme sole) against Aetna Casualty & Surety Company and Aetna Life Insurance Company, for damages on account of the wrongful dissection and mutilation of the dead body of Orange Love, their brother. The nearest relatives of Orange Love, at the time of his death, were the plaintiffs and a brother, Jim Love, who died a short time later. It is alleged that the defendant unlawfully procured an autopsy on…