Legal Opinion
Lee v. Weston
Indiana Court of Appeals
Decided March 26, 1980No. 2-778-A-233PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MILLER, Presiding Judge.
Plaintiff-appellants Ronald I. Lee and Luella J. Lee (Lees) husband and wife, brought suit against Lonnie G. Weston (Weston), the Coroner of Madison County, in a two-paragraph complaint. The first paragraph alleged Weston had improperly ordered an autopsy of their 18-year old son, Randall, and then interfered with the autopsy by causing his body to be partially embalmed prior to the autopsy. The second paragraph alleged Weston libeled the Lees by finding in his verdict that the cause of Randall’s death was “Aspirations of body content/Due to overdose”, a cause they…
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