CLAIMING A CORPSE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3770, 7 September 1907, Page 4

CLAIMING A CORPSE.

A woman appeared before Mr Dane, K. C., at West London Police Court, and made a remarkable application respecting the body of her husband, which was lying at a house in Fulham awaiting burial. At the time of his death, she explained, her husband was living apart from her, and the woman with whom he had resided would not give up the corpse to her for burial, and had expressed her intention of interring it in Fulham Cemetery.

The applicant desired to bury her husband at Iver, in Buckinghamshire, and asked the Magistrate to make an order for the giving up of the body. Mr Lane: “This is one of the most singular cases I have ever heard of. She refuses to give up the body, you say ?” “Yes, unless I can obtain an order from the Magistrate to the undertaker to carry out my instructions as to the place of burial.”

Mr Lane observed that as far as he knew a magistrate had no power to make any such order. The applicant could go to the High Court and get an injunction, but that would be beyond tier means. She was the person who at law had the duty, and therefore the right, of interring him. After considering the matter, Mr Tane decided to send on officer of the . Court to try and persuade the woman to give up the body.

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