Barbara Sullivan v. Catholic Cemeteries, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• acknowledging that remains are not property in the true sense of the term, but quasi-property “to which are attached certain rights,” like burial, which nonetheless diminish once the body is laid to rest
• “This rule of priority is to be applied with reason. It is flexible and may be modified by circumstances of the moment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).