Hackett v. Hackett

This is a bill in equity to compel the respondent to return the body of her late husband, Thomas E. Hackett, to the grave where it was buried and from which she has removed it, without consent of the complainant, the father and next of kin of said Thomas F. Hackett. The deceased was the owner of a burial lot, one of a family group, in St. Mary’s Boman Catholic Cemetery in the village of Crompton, where he was buried, with the acquiescence of the respondent, his widow. About six months afterward she caused the body to be exhumed and buried in the Biverside Cemetery in the city of Pawtucket.…