COLUMBUS – In a development fitting for the Hallowe’en season, Ohio’s Attorney General is suing a Toledo headstone maker for performing shoddy work.
According to the lawsuit, Richard Daily and his company, National Memorial Stone Company, violated Ohio’s Consumer Sales Practices Act by delivering headstones or gravesite markers with incorrect or misspelled names, incorrect dates, had headstones installed the wrong direction or with the incorrect granite.
Consumers also complained that the company failed to deliver gravesite items including vases and military plates, Attorney General Mike DeWine said.
In one instance, DeWine says the company repossessed the headstone of a 10-year-old child and did not return it despite receiving full payment.
The lawsuit, filed in the Lucas County Common Pleas Court, asks for reimbursement for harmed consumers, an injunction to stop any violations of the law, and civil penalties, DeWine said.