Tillman v. Detroit Receiving Hospital

How courts have described this case

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• “While there is no property right in the next of kin to a dead body, ... Michigan jurisprudence recognizes a common law cause of action on behalf of the person or persons entitled to the possession, control, or burial of a dead body....”
• “While there is no property right in the next of kin to a dead body, . . . Michigan jurisprudence recognizes a common law cause of action on behalf of the person or persons entitled to the possession, control, or burial of a dead body . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).