Legal Opinion
Alosi v. Jones
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided May 20, 1937No. 6 Div. 106PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOULDIN, Justice.
The bill was filed to enjoin the enforcement of an ordinance or order of the city commission of Birmingham forbidding burials in “Pine Haven Cemetery.”
The validity of the ordinance is challenged on the ground that it is arbitrary, unreasonable, oppressive, discriminatory. The appeal is from a final decree denying relief.
The pertinent facts, without substantial dispute, are briefly these: In 1904 the owners of a parcel of land, near 5 acres (which had been surveyed into blocks, but then outside the corporate limits of Birmingham), laid off and platted such parcel into cemetery…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Laurel Hill Cemetery v. City and County of San FranciscoSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
- Leary v. AdamsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1933
- Bessemer Land & Improvement Co. v. JenkinsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1895
- Anderson v. AchesonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1907
- Kingsbury v. FlowersSupreme Court of Alabama · 1880
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Ross Neely Exp., Inc. v. ALA. DEPT. OF ENVIRON. MANAGEMENTSupreme Court of Alabama · 1983
- Martin v. ReedSupreme Court of Alabama · 1985
- Allinder v. City of HomewoodSupreme Court of Alabama · 1950
- Blankenship v. City of DecaturSupreme Court of Alabama · 1959
- State v. LupoSupreme Court of Alabama · 2007
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