Rice v. Sioux City Memorial Park Cemetery, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
1Opinion of the Court 1
349 U.S. 70 (1955)
RICE
v.
SIOUX CITY MEMORIAL PARK CEMETERY, INC. ET AL.
No. 28.
Supreme Court of United States.
Decided May 9, 1955.
ON PETITION FOR REHEARING.
Neil R. McCluhan and Lowell C. Kindig for petitioner.
2Opinion of the Court · FrankfurterJustice Frankfurter
This is an action for damages brought by plaintiff, petitioner here, in the District Court of Woodbury County, Iowa, to compensate her for mental suffering claimed to flow from defendant cemetery's refusal to bury her husband, a Winnebago Indian, after services had been conducted at the grave site and the burial party had disbanded. Plaintiff founded her action, so far as here relevant, on…
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