Frost v. Columbia Clay Company

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Fraser.

The respondents make the following statement:

“As noted in the case for appeal, this was an action commenced in November, 1922, by the plaintiff against the defendants, for damages for the trespassing on and excavating in a graveyard which had formerly been the family burying ground of the plaintiff’s family.

‘The trial Court directed a verdict for the defendant on the ground that the alleged burial place had been abandoned.

“It is admitted that excavations were made in what had formerly been the burying ground o.f the Frost family, and…