Cleveland Cemetery Ass'n v. Cuyahoga Co. Comrs

Section 10,093 GC provides:

“A company or association incorporated for cemetery purposes may appropriate or otherwise acquire and may hold, not exceeding six hundred and forty acres of land; * * * all of which shall be exempt from execution and from being appropriated for any other public purpose.”

There is no question about the necessity for the use of ,a part at least of this land for cemetery purposes. The cemetery was originally located upon six acres of land with an easement for access to Detroit Street. To this there has been added, by several deeds, other small tracts. All of these lands…