Mannheimer v. Wolff
Appellate Court of Illinois
1Dissent
PRESIDING JUSTICE BURMAN,
dissenting:
I am unable to agree with the majority of the court only in the construction placed on the right of defendants to decorate the graves in question in a manner which does not conform with decorations of the other graves in the same plot.
A map attached to the affidavit of the Eosehill Cemetery Company shows the lots in question are contiguous. Together they form an area thirty-six feet wide at the front, thirty-eight feet wide at the rear and twenty feet deep. There is a monument in the center of the lot. There are ten graves in the front row, those of David…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Brown v. HillIllinois Supreme Court · 1918
- Gasser v. Crown Hill Cemetery Ass'nSupreme Court of Colorado · 1938
- Sherman v. GraySupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1954