Metairie Cemetery Ass'n v. Board of Assessors

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Fenner, J.

The owners of a certain tract of land formerly known as the Metairie Eace Course, with certain other individuals, iormed themselves into a corporation under the general law of the State, for the purpose declared in their charter, “ to be the establishment and maintenance of a cemetery and graveyard” on the property above mentioned.

In 1873, the legislature, by Act No. 60, of that year took cognizance of the act of incorporation, and made it a penal offense to wilfully destroy any tomb in said cemetery, remove auy body therefrom or cut or break…