Jewish Center of Mount Vernon, Inc. v. Mount Eden Cemetery Ass'n

This is an action by a religious corporation for a judgment declaring that a certain contract entered into with defendant, a membership corporation operating a cemetery, constitutes a valid, binding agreement enforcible against defendant. Defendant, in its answer, admits the execution of the agreement as part of a settlement and compromise of differences and disputes between the parties. Defendant sets up two affirmative defenses, to wit, that plaintiff is bound by *1058the charges approved by the Cemetery Board under article IX of the Membership Corporations Law, as revised by chapter 533 of the…