Arthur v. Virkler

Lewis, Edmund H., J.

The defendant Maurice N. Virkler for a period of eleven years prior to 1931 conducted an undertaking establishment in the business district of the village of Lowville, N. Y. On August 13, 1931, he and his wife purchased a private residence on Trinity avenue, and subsequently remodeled the structure into a “ Home for Funerals,” where he proposes to embalm dead bodies, hold them for identification when occasion demands, afford facilities for autopsies, conduct funeral services, and in general to perform all of those services incidental to the business of an undertaker. In…