Palenzke v. Bruning
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for the mutilation of a dead body. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Jesse Holdom. Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1900.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Freeman
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an action brought by appellant against George Berz, coroner of Cook county, Henry F. Pruning, a physician, and Louis Hacker, an undertaker, to recover damages for pain and anguish of mind, and injury to property caused by an alleged wanton, malicious and wrongful mutilation of the body of appellant’s deceased minor son. The declaration charges, in substance, that the defendants took the body of the deceased, which had been prepared and coffined for burial, from the parents’ possession, against the will of the latter, and…
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