Chew v. First Presbyterian Church of Wilmington, Del., Inc.
District Court, D. Delaware
In Equity. Suit by Emily Cleland Townsend Chew, Sidney Jordan, Ethel Jordan, Vincent Jordan, and Archie N. Jordan against the First Presbyterian Church of Wilmington, Del., Incorporated, and Arthur L,. Bailey. On motion for preliminary injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
BRADFORD, District Judge.
This is an application by Emily Cleland Townsend Chew and others, citizens of states other than Delaware, suing on behalf of themselves and others, for a preliminary injunction to restrain, until the further order of the court, the First Presbyterian Church of Wilmington, Delaware, Incorporated, a corporation of Delaware, from entering or in any way trespassing upon the burial lot or vault wherein the bodies of the relatives of the complainants are buried in the cemetery of the corporation defendant between Ninth, Tenth, Market and King Streets in Wilmington, for the…
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