People ex rel. Guettler v. Mount Olive Cemetery Ass'n

This is an appeal by Mount Olive Cemetery Association, defendant, to review an order of the superior court of Cook County prohibiting it from selling cemetery markers and monuments. A franchise being involved, the jurisdiction of this court has been properly invoked. People ex rel. Blake Co. v. Oak Woods Cemetery Association, 17 Ill.2d 64.

The defendant was organized in 1885 as a corporation for profit to conduct a cemetery business and since then has operated a cemetery at 3832 Narragansett Avenue in Chicago. In 1955 the defendant’s articles of incorporation were amended so as to also permit…