Huntly

Plaintiff appeals from orders of the Superior Court granting defendants’ motions for nonsuit and from the resulting judgment entered in favor of defendants.

The action is one to recover damages from the defendants arising from their alleged acts in jointly causing an autopsy to be performed upon the body of Thomas H. Huntly, deceased, husband of plaintiff herein.

Mr. Huntly died in the county of Los Angeles on March 22, 1926. A partial autopsy was performed upon the body by a surgeon occupying the position of autopsy surgeon in the office of the coroner of Los Angeles County, under the authority of the coroner, but no inquest was held in that county. The body was shortly thereafter shipped to San Francisco, which was the home of the deceased and his wife. Upon its arrival in San Francisco the body was received by representatives of the defendants Suhr and H. F. Suhr Company, and taken to their undertaking establishment.

It appears that the autopsy surgeon at Los Angeles determined that the cause of death was angina pectoris, and the coroner issued a death certificate upon such finding. Apparently dissatisfied with the result of the examination in Los Angeles, the plaintiff…