Hogan v. Woodward Iron Company

SIMPSON, Justice.

The appellant seeks to review an adverse judgment wherein she declined to plead further after the trial court sustained demurrer to her complaint.

Appellant, in brief, thus correctly postulates the issue: “The sole and ultimate question to be decided on this appeal is whether a daughter can recover damages for mental suffering as a result of injury to the burial plot of her deceased father, where on the face of the complaint, it affirmatively appears that the surviving spouse of said father is still living.”

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