Hullman v. Honcomp
Ohio Supreme Court
This is a Bill in Chancery reserved in the District Court of Hamilton County, for decision here. The bill was filed in the commercial court of Cincinnati in April, 1850, and represents that the German Catholic St. Peter’s Cemetery Association of Cincinnati was constituted in January, 1843, for the purpose of providing a suitable place of burial for the German emigrants, their families and relatives of Cincinnati and its vicinity, who might be members of the Catholic church,…
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This is a Bill in Chancery reserved in the District Court of Hamilton County, for decision here. The bill was filed in the commercial court of Cincinnati in April, 1850, and represents that the German Catholic St. Peter’s Cemetery Association of Cincinnati was constituted in January, 1843, for the purpose of providing a suitable place of burial for the German emigrants, their families and relatives of Cincinnati and its vicinity, who might be members of the Catholic church, and in accordance with the doctrine, discipline, usages and ceremonies of the same. And with a view to that object, a…
1Opinion of the CourtBartley, J.
The legality of the election of the complainants, as trustees of the German Catholic St. Peter’s Cemetery Association of Cincinnati, at the election held by the association in February, 1850, and the right of the defendants to exercise the powers, and conduct the affairs of the association, cannot be judicially tested by bill in chancery, but such cause falls appropriately within the jurisdiction of proceedings at law by quo warranto.
A special and express trust, created by the appropriation of a lot of ground for the exclusive purpose of the burial of the dead of the German Catholics of…
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