Cedar Park Cemetery Ass'n v. Village of Calumet Park

This case is here on direct appeal from the circuit court of Cook County, the validity of a municipal ordinance being involved, and the trial judge having certified that in his opinion the public interest requires that the appeal be taken directly to the Supreme Court.

The defendant, the village of Calumet Park, was formerly the village of Burr Oak. Prior to May 18, 1923, one Daniel Hewitt desired to purchase land within the village for the purpose of constructing, operating and maintaining a cemetery and burial grounds thereon. There was no ordinance of said village at the time prohibiting…