Mountain View Cemetery Co. v. Massey

Maxwell, Judge:

Since 1910, the plaintiff has been and is now the owner of 15.88 acres of land in an outlying section of the city of Charleston. Of said tract, about three acres on the northern side have been laid off into burial lots with suitable avenues and walks. About fifty of these lots have been sold and about sixty bodies have been buried therein. The residue of about twelve acres is held in reserve by the owner for eemeteria 1 purposes, it being suitable for such use except one or two acres on a declivity at the southern side. The entire enterprise is for profit on the part of the…