Whitehair v. Highland Memory Gardens, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “[a] cause of action for negligent or intentional mishandling of a dead body does not require a showing of physical injury or pecuniary loss”
• noting \the general rule that damages for mental distress cannot ordinarily be recovered for a negligent act that does not produce some physical injury\
• surviving spouse and, in the absence thereof, the next of kin according to the laws of intestate succession
• acknowledging quasi-property right in a dead body and adopting section 868
• acknowledging quasi-property right in a dead body and adopting section 868
• “A cause of action for negligent or intentional mishandling of a dead body does not require a showing of physical injury or pecuniary loss.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).