INFIELD v. COPE

No. 5660.

270 P.2d 716 (1954)

58 N.M. 308

INFIELD v. COPE.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

May 12, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Johnston Jeffries, Aztec, H.A. Daugherty, Farmington, for appellant.

Charles M. Tansey, Farmington, Gilbert, White & Gilbert, Santa Fe, for appellee.


SADLER, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing the complaint of a decedent's widow seeking damages for mental suffering and impairment of bodily health, said to have resulted from defendant-mortician's wrongful and wanton refusal to permit her to view the body of her husband while in defendant's custody at his mortuary prior to burial, where it had been removed following accidental death in an explosion and fire. The ground of the motion, which the...

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