The old "mistakes were made" bit.
No one verified at the time if the liquid was coming from the casket itself or something nearby? Who cleaned it up and what was their assessment of it? Sorry, but even with the funeral home’s lame excuse, I don’t think the family can prove anything was dripping out of mama.
Seems to me that nobody ever identified the liquid, yet the funeral director gets sued. The level to which this society has sunk never fails to amaze me.
That’s a bad place to stash a bottle of altar wine.
My buddy digs graves in a very nice Cemetary for a living. He’s told the story of a buried VERY large (fat) ex-firefighter. Once his wife passed away his family wanted the mans body exhumed to be buried in another cemetary.
The man was buried in a metal casket, As they were lifting the casket from a dolly to a table the bottom gave way and the guy fell to the ground like 50 rotten pumkins. My friend Mark said it was the most heinous, Grossest thing he ever saw in his life. Apparently he splashed all across the room.
Wouldn’t you know that something like this would happen in Oregon?