Legal Opinion · Dissent

Mannheimer v. Wolff

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided December 10, 1962No. Gen. 48,697Published

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

  1. Brown v. HillIllinois Supreme Court · 1918
  2. Gasser v. Crown Hill Cemetery Ass'nSupreme Court of Colorado · 1938
  3. Sherman v. GraySupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1954

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