Hope Cemetery Ass'n v. Rose

Hope Cemetery is the main Protestant cemetery in the city of Corning and vicinity. It is owned and managed by this plaintiff, a corporation duly organized under chapter 133 of the Laws of 1847. Some years ago it purchásed a tract of land of about thirty-three acres to be used as an annex to the cemetery grounds it then owned and managed and which in the passage of time had become well filled with graves. The land so purchased as yet lies in the same condition as when purchased except that about four or five acres in its northwest corner have been plotted and to some extent used as burial…