From the Times-News:

The borough of Jim Thorpe won’t be surrendering the body of the famed athlete for whom the municipality was named without putting up a fight.

Two documents have been filed in U.S. District Court, Scranton, in response to a lawsuit initiated by Thorpe’s son, Jack Thorpe, who wants the athlete’s remains to be brought back and buried in Oklahoma.

Currently, the body is in a mausoleum along Route 903 in the borough.

The defending court actions were filed by attorney William G. Schwab & Associates, who is working pro bono on behalf of the borough, and attorney James R. Nanovic of Nanovic Law Offices, solicitor for Jim Thorpe borough.

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