In a Rockland County, N. Y. stone quarry one day last spring was found the bruised corpse of a youth named Charles Lewis. As a matter of routine, County Coroner John Clarence Dingman performed an autopsy. In Supreme Court at New City, N. Y. last week Charles Lewis' father sued Coroner Dingman for $10,000, claiming he had suffered that much mental anguish because his son's brain and spinal cord, which he said the coroner had removed, had not been buried with the rest of his remains.
Unenviable is the legal lot of a coroner...
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