Sanford v. Ware

Maude L. Ware filed a notice of motion for judgment against W. Rufus Sanford to recover damages for the negligent manner in which the defendant had disinterred the body of the plaintiff’s husband from its resting place in a cemetery and reinterred it in another cemetery, and for the indignities inflicted upon the remains during the removal and reinterment. Damages for pecuniary loss sustained and for mental anguish suffered were claimed. A demurrer challenging the right to recover damages for mental suffering was overruled and thereafter the defendant filed a plea of “not guilty.” Upon a…