RICE v. SIOUX CITY CEMETERY.

No. 28.

349 U.S. 70 (1955)

RICE v. SIOUX CITY MEMORIAL PARK CEMETERY, INC. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 9, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil R. McCluhan and Lowell C. Kindig for petitioner.


MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an action for damages brought by plaintiff, petitioner here, in the District Court of Woodbury County, Iowa, to compensate her for mental suffering claimed to flow from defendant cemetery's refusal to bury her husband, a Winnebago Indian, after services had been conducted at the grave site and the burial party had disbanded. Plaintiff founded her action, so...

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