The widow, Doris K. Carlson, of Mesa, Ariz., filed suit Wednesday in 3rd District Court in Salt Lake City seeking $10,000 for what she claims was a breach of contract as well as unspecified damages for "extreme emotional distress."
According to the complaint, the Carlsons signed an agreement on Aug. 22, 1964, with Memorial Estates in Kearns. The couple paid $480 for four burial plots. When Rey Carlson died Nov. 21, 2005, in Arizona, his family brought his body to Utah for burial.
That's when the cemetery told them there was a road paved over the plot, the lawsuit says. "The guy was planning on being buried under a pine tree," said Lawrence Peterson, Doris Carlson's attorney. "[The family was] real disappointed."
The cemetery could not be reached for comment on Wednesday. Rey Carlson was buried in Arizona, according to the complaint.
- Nate Carlisle
