Burgess v. Perdue

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• ruling that a cause of action against the physician who mistakenly performed an autopsy of the body of the plaintiff's son could be pursued only if the physician's actions were intentional or malicious, but not if they were negligent
• ruling that a cause of action against the physician who mistakenly performed an autopsy of the body of the plaintiffs son could be pursued only if the physician’s actions were intentional or malicious, but not if they were negligent
• ruling that a cause of action against the physician who mistakenly performed an autopsy of the body of the plaintiff's son could be pursued only if the physician’s actions were intentional or malicious, but not if they were negligent
• finding that a mother who was told her son’s brain was in a jar did not assert extreme and outrageous conduct
• following an unauthorized autopsy, doctor telephoned mother to tell her he had deceased son’s brain in a jar
• affirming summary judgment for defendant when plaintiff’s evidence showed negligent, rather than intentional or malicious, mistreatment of decedent’s body

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