Brooks v. Tayntor
New York Supreme Court
Action to restrain the removal of a monument from plaintiff’s burial plot in Greenwood cemetery.
1Opinion of the CourtDavy, J.
This action is brought to restrain the defendants from removing a granite monument from plaintiff’s burial plot in Greenwood cemetery which was erected in memory of his deceased wife and daughter.
The monument was sold and delivered by the defendants to the plaintiff in 1893 for the sum of one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars ($1,850). The amount due and unpaid of the purchase price at the time of the commencement of this action was one thousand three hundred and sixty-three dollars and sixty-seven cents ($1,363.67) with interest thereon from August 10, 1894, for which last-mentioned…
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