Mayer v. Turner

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• a novation is itself a contract and must have all the essential elements of a de novo contract
• where a party is “contractually obligated to handle a corpse,” the party has a legal duty to handle the corpse “non-negligently and with utmost dignity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).