ROBERTS v. PUBLIC CEMETERY OF CULLMAN

No. 89-169.

569 So.2d 369 (1990)

Betty ROBERTS v. PUBLIC CEMETERY OF CULLMAN, INC., and Doyle Roberson.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

September 28, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Shay Samples and Richard D. Stratton, Hogan, Smith, Alspaugh, Samples & Pratt, Birmingham, for appellant.

W.J. McDaniel and Robert G. Boliek, Jr. of McDaniel, Hall, Conerly & Lusk, Birmingham, for appellees.


HORNSBY, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff Betty Roberts appeals from a judgment for the defendants, Public Cemetery of Cullman, Inc., and Doyle Roberson, the cemetery's sexton. This suit arose out of the burial of Roberts's deceased husband. Roberts's complaint contained three counts, alleging: (1) that the defendants had acted negligently or wantonly (a) in failing to have the grave of her deceased husband acceptable for burial, by allowing it to contain water, (b) in burying...

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