Legal Opinion

Rhodes Cemetery Ass'n v. Miller

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided March 5, 1940No. 8988PublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Maxwell, Judge:

This controversy pertains to the bounds of a small cemetery on the defendant’s farm and the course and width of a passageway' between the cemetery and the public road. From a decree determinative of these questions in accordance with the claim of the plaintiff the defendant, S. M. Miller, has appealed.

In 1902 Joseph T. Rhodes, then the owner of a farm of a little more than 100 acres in Kingwood District, Preston County, executed and delivered to Rhodes Cemetery Association a deed for a burial plot of one-half acre in the midst of his farm, and a right of way for passage to and…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. O'Brien v. MurphyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
  2. Truett v. AdamsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1884
  3. Gibney v. FitzsimmonsWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1898
  4. Palmer v. NewmanWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1922
  5. County of Addison v. BlackmerSupreme Court of Vermont · 1928

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3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Cotiga Development Co. v. United Fuel Gas Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1962
  2. Sally-Mike Properties v. YokumWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1985
  3. King County v. Hanson Investment Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1949
  4. Hoffman v. SmithWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1983
  5. Burroughs v. MilliganCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1965

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