In re Bauer
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the Ary eh Lodge, No. 6, of the Independent Order, Free Sons of Israel, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the. clerk of the county of Kings on the 7th day of October, 1901, consenting to the removal of the remains of Lazarus Bauer, deceased,, from their place of interment in the Maimonides Benevolent Society Cemetery to a family plot in said cemetery.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J,:
This was an application under subdivision 4 of section 51 of the-Membership Corporations Law for the consent of the Supreme Court to the removal of the dead body of Lazarus Bauer from the Maimonides Benevolent Society Cemetery. (Laws of 1895, chap. 559, as amd. by Laws of 1900, chap. 715.)
The portion of that subdivision material to be considered here is as follows: “ A dead body lawfully buried in a lot in such a cemetery may be removed therefrom, with the consent of the corporation, and a written consent of the owners of such lot, and of the surviving wife, husband,…
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