Grinestaff v. Grinestaff

CLAY, Commissioner.

This suit was brought by plaintiff appellants, owners of a tract of land, to enjoin appellee defendants from appropriating a part of a private cemetery located thereon. The Chancellor denied plaintiffs relief, and adjudged that defendants should have “custody and control” of a section of the cemetery, recently marked off by them, for their exclusive family use. Plaintiffs appeal on the ground that there is no legal basis for giving defendants any future rights in this graveyard.

In 1915 a large tract, of which the cemetery is a part, was owned by T. S. Grinestaff…