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Guardians of the Soul: Angels and Innocents, Mourners and Saints with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman

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Family sues MEs office, funeral home PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Tuesday, 30 November 2004
By Scott E. Williams
The Daily News
November 29, 2004

A Palestine couple is suing the Galveston County Medical Examiner’s Office, as well as a Palestine funeral home and a body transport service.

The lawsuit claims that the defendants’ negligence caused the body of their son to decompose severely.
Michael Shumate, 30, was killed in a vehicle collision in Palestine.

Shumate’s body went to Bailey & Foster Funeral Home, but a vehicle from Ross Transportation took the body to the Galveston County morgue because an autopsy was required as part of the investigation into the accident.

At the time, Anderson County had a contract with the Galveston County Medical Examiner’s Office to conduct autopsies of bodies from Anderson County.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Rebecca and Ralph Shumate, Michael Shumate’s parents. It claims that the Ross driver found the medical examiner’s office unoccupied and left the body on floor of the garage, where it decomposed rapidly.

As the lawsuit noted, former Chief Medical Examiner Charles Harvey’s autopsy report stated that the body bag was “open and unsealed” and that blood had “leaked from the body onto the floor in a moderately abundant quantity.”

The suit claims the funeral home was negligent in not assuring that the body would be adequately preserved. It states the medical examiner’s office failed to ensure a body arriving there would be properly stored and claims the transport company failed to care for the body.

http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=17a17c6cffee5eab
 
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