Legal Opinion
Mallen v. Mallen
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided October 25, 1974PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PARROTT, Judge.
This controversy involves a widow’s attempt to remove the remains of her husband from a burial plot owned by his family to another cemetery.
On March 21, 1972, Steven Mallen was killed in an airplane crash and his body *737was buried in a family plot in Mizpah Cemetery at Chattanooga. After obtaining a disinterment permit from the Department of Public Health, on July 3, 1974, Brenda Frumin Mallen, widow of the deceased, proceeded to disinter the remains. On the same day as the attempted disinterment, S. T. Mallen, father of the deceased, and Lester Cohn, vice-chairman of the…
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