EDWARDS v. FRANKE

No. 45.

364 P.2d 60 (1961)

Willie EDWARDS, Appellant, v. Richard FRANKE, d/b/a Evergreen Memorial Chapel, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

June 13, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Ashley Dickerson, Anchorage, for appellant.

John C. Hughes, Hughes & Thorsness, Anchorage, for appellee.

Before NESBETT, C.J., and DIMOND and AREND, JJ.


AREND, Justice.

This is an action sounding in tort for the wrongful burial of the remains of a woman who, the plaintiff claims, was his common law wife, and also sounding in contract for specific performance of a burial contract.

We gather from the pleadings of the parties and other matters contained in the record that one Edith Edwards, also known as Edith Tatum, died at Anchorage, Alaska, on July 31, 1959. The plaintiff, Willie Edwards, thereupon entered...

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