Board of Health v. City of East Saginaw

Plaintiffs in error brought ejectment for a cemetery in the city of East Saginaw, which had been conveyed to them in 1854 in trust for cemetery purposes for the township of Buena Yista. The uses declared in the deed were “ in trust for the use of the township as a place of burial for the dead, and to be used by said board and said township as a cemetery and for cemetery purposes, and for no other purposes whatever.” In case any of the land should be sold for other purposes, such portion was to revert.

In 1859 the city of East Saginaw was incorporated out of a part of the township, and made to…