A family suing a cemetery over the botched burial of their mother’s coffin scored a legal win when a judge ruled the cemetery was liable in the case.
scored a legal win Monday when a Bronx judge ruled the cemetery was liable in the horrific case.
The coffin, carrying the remains of 79-year-old Claribel Oppenheimer, got stuck in the grave and popped open in front of 35 mourners as workers struggled to shake it free during the June 24 burial, the suit says. Oppenheimer’s body was eventually transferred to a new coffin at a nearby funeral home and lowered to her final resting place headfirst, the suit said.
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