Enos v. Snyder
131 Cal. 68 ·
Supreme Court of California · Filed
Published · citable
Cited by 1
Holding
The court held that the statutory duty and correlative right to bury a decedent and possess the decedent's body for that purpose devolve upon the next of kin, and that a decedent cannot by will or other instrument make a valid disposition of their own corpse, as a dead body is not property that forms part of the estate.