Barrett v. Mount Greenwood Cemetery Ass'n

This was a bill in equity, filed in the circuit court of Cook county by certain land owners, who are appellants here, to enjoin appellees, two cemetery corporations, from constructing a certain sewer so as to drain their cemeteries, and especially to underdrain certain wet and swampy portions thereof used and to be used in burying the dead, into a running stream of water flowing through appellants’ lands. The sewer empties into the brook where it crosses Morgan avenue, above appellants’ lands, and is being constructed eastward along said avenue between said cemeteries, with lateral extensions…