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Wrongful Burial

A person who purchased a gravesite but discovered three decades later that the cemetery resold it and allowed someone else to be buried there is entitled to relief under Indiana’s wrongful burial law to the removal of the remains from the site, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled.

INDIANAPOLIS – A person who purchased a gravesite but discovered three decades later that the cemetery resold it and allowed someone else to be buried there is entitled to relief under Indiana’s wrongful burial law to the removal of the remains from the site, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled.

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