Gray v. Southern Pacific Co.

THE COURT.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the defendants in an action brought to recover damages for the alleged wrongful performance of an autopsy upon the body of one Wallace Lester Gray, and is brought by his widow. The defendants are the coroner of the city and county of San Francisco, the autopsy surgeon of the coroner, the coroner’s assistant autopsy surgeon and pathologist, two physicians and surgeons employed by defendant Southern Pacific Company in the general hospital of that corporation, and one Bessie E. Scharpff, a nurse.

Gray, an employee of the Southern Pacific…