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MELLETTE v. TRINITY MEMORIAL CEMETERY, INC.

No. 2D10-5204.

95 So.3d 1043 (2012)

Priscilla MELLETTE, f/k/a Priscilla Kellerman-Pate, Appellant, v. TRINITY MEMORIAL CEMETERY, INC., d/b/a Trinity Memorial Gardens, a Florida profit corporation, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

August 29, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel D. Eaton of Podhurst Orseck, P.A., Miami, and Weldon E. Brennan of Brennan, Holden & Kavouklis, P.A., Tampa, for Appellant.

Hinda Klein and Karen E. Berger of Conroy, Simberg, Ganon, Krevans, Abel, Lurvey, Morrow, & Schefer, P.A., Hollywood, for Appellee.

NORTHCUTT, Judge.

Trinity Memorial Cemetery disinterred the body of Adam Kellerman-Pate at the request of his mother, Joni Pate, and sent it for reburial in Texas, where Ms. Pate resided. The removal of Adam's body was done without the knowledge or permission of his widow, Priscilla Mellette. She sued Trinity for damages based on theories of tortious interference with a dead body and reckless infliction of emotional distress. On Trinity's motion, the circuit court...

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