In re Donn
New York Supreme Court
This is an application for an order directing the defendant, the German and French Boman Catholic Association of Buffalo, to deliver to the petitioners the body of their mother, Elizabeth Bonn, interred in defendant’s cemetery grounds, for the purpose of reinterment thereof in the petitioners’ family lot in the Buffalo Forest Lawn Cemetery.
1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.
The following facts are established by relators’ petition and the affidavit of the president of the defendant: The petitioners are the only heirs at law and next of kin of Nicholas Bonn and Elizabeth Bonn, deceased. The defendant is a Boman Catholic cemetery association in Buffalo, organized under and by virtue of the statutes of this state for the organization of cemetery associations. The petitioners’ mother died on the 16th day of October, 1879, and was thereupon duly interred in the defendant’s cemetery. She was at the time of her death a member of a Boman Catholic Church in Buffalo, and…
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