Legal Opinion
Temple v. City of Petersburg
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided March 13, 1944No. Record No. 2742PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGregory, J.
The appellants, who were the complainants in the court below, filed their bill in equity against the city of Petersburg, praying that it be restrained and enjoined from using a tract of 1.01 acres of land acquired by it in 1942 for cemetery purposes. This plot of land adjoined Peoples Memorial Cemetery, which had been estáblished and used as a cemetery for more than one hundred years.
The court below temporarily restrained the city from using the 1.01-acre tract as an addition to the cemetery. Later the city filed its answer to the bill and, by consent, the cause was set for hearing upon the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Town of South Hill v. AllenSupreme Court of Virginia · 1941
- Commonwealth v. SandersonSupreme Court of Virginia · 1938
- Saville v. Virginia Railway & Power Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1913
- Fairbanks, Morse & Co. v. Town of Cape CharlesSupreme Court of Virginia · 1926
- Woodward v. City of StauntonSupreme Court of Virginia · 1933
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3Cited by38 opinions
- Carter v. NelmsSupreme Court of Virginia · 1963
- McClung v. County of HenricoSupreme Court of Virginia · 1959
- Reuther v. Trustees Of The Trucking Employees Of Passaic And Bergen County Welfare FundCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1978
- Adams v. AdamsNebraska Supreme Court · 1953
- Thomas Gerald Adkins, Sr. v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 1997
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