Carter v. Town of Avoca
Supreme Court of Iowa
1Opinion of the CourtVermilioN, J.
The plaintiffs are the heirs at law of A. Q. Harris, deceased, and the defendants, aside from the town of Avoca, are the officers of the town, and the heirs at law of Henry Kuhl, deceased.
It is the claim of plaintiffs, as set up in the petition, that, at the time of his death, Harris had the right or license to have his body and the bodies of members of his family buried in the south half of Lot No. 110 in a public cemetery, the fee of which is in the defendant town; that Harris was buried on said half lot in 1871, his son in 1876, a grandchild, the daughter of one of the plaintiffs, in 1882,…
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- Wormley v. WormleyIllinois Supreme Court · 1904
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