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SHAFFER v. LEE

No. 5295.

616 P.2d 779 (1980)

James SHAFFER and Karin Shaffer, husband and wife, Appellants (Plaintiffs), v. Larry L. LEE, Individually and as Fremont County Coroner, and Edward McAuslan, Individually and as Fremont County Deputy Coroner, Appellees (Defendants).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

September 4, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F.M. Andrews, Robert O. Anderson, of Andrews & Anderson, P.C., Riverton, signed the brief and appeared in oral argument on behalf of appellants.

Arnold B. Tschirgi, Fremont County and Prosecuting Atty., Lander, signed the brief on behalf of appellees. Appellees submitted the case upon their brief.

Before RAPER, C.J., and McCLINTOCK, THOMAS, ROSE and ROONEY, JJ.

ROONEY, Justice.

Appellants-plaintiffs requested relief in the district court which had for its effect the prevention of exhumation of the body of their 20-month-old son, Robert. Robert and two other minor children of appellants died in a fire which consumed appellants' mobile-home residence near Arapahoe. A coroner's jury made a report of an inquest into the deaths. After Robert's body was interred, the inquest was either continued or a second one was started. The...

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