Spates v. Dameron Hospital Ass'n

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• Explaining that “[t]he elements of a conversion are ... the defendant’s conversion by a wrongful act....”
• examining whether a statute could be used for negligence per se where defendant had no common law duty to avoid negligently inflicting emotional distress
• conversion claim founded on mother’s quasi-property right in deceased daughter’s body permissible, but intent to exercise ownership not shown where defendant-hospital transported body to coroner after mother could not be reached
• “Not every failure to deliver property to the rightful owner constitutes a conversion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).