People Ex Rel. Groman v. Sinai Temple

Opinion

FILES, P. J.

This proceeding in quo warranto was brought by the Attorney General upon the complaint of certain private persons to determine whether the defendant corporation is unlawfully exercising its corporate franchise. Defendant is incorporated as a nonprofit corporation for religious and cemetery purposes. (Corp. Code, § 9200.) The substance of the complaint is that defendant is operating its cemetery as a profit-making business, competing in the market with other cemeteries and making a profit which is currently being used to pay off the purchase price of its cemetery property.

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