Moore v. Forest Lawn Gardens, Inc.

Adjudication

Aldisert, J.,

We have before us the lengthy proceedings involving a test of Rule 3-G-(1) of the Jefferson Memorial Park. We perceive the issue to be extremely narrow; we are to determine whether the regulation is “unreasonable, a curtailment of freedom of choice in a matter of great personal concern, and a restriction not essential to the legitimate interests of cemetery management” as is the test set forth in the authoritative case of Ignatowski v. St. Mary’s Polish Catholic Cemetery Company, 174 Pa. Superior Ct. 52.

These proceedings were tried simultaneously with the companion…