Wood v. E. R. Butterworth & Sons

Citations

• 65 Wash. 344
• 118 P. 212
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 925

Syllabus

<p>Dead Bodies — Place of Bubial — Right of Selection — Widow or Next of Kin — Desires of Deceased. The widow’s primary right to control the burial of her deceased husband depends upon the equities of the case, and will not prevail as against the wishes of his next of kin, where she desired his burial in this state and he was a nonresident, prominent in another state, and had often expressed a sincere desire of being buried in that state, where his first wife and two children of his second wife were buried and his next of kin live; the wishes of the deceased in such case having a controlling force.</p>