State Ex Rel. Oak Hill Cemetery Ass'n v. Harrington

Mandamus to compel the commissioner of public health and the board of public welfare of the city of Minneapolis to issue a permit for the burial of a body in Oak Hill Cemetery. From a judgment of dismissal relators appeal. .

The Oak Hill Cemetery Association, duly incorporated as a public cemetery association under the laws of this state, owned 83 acres of land in the northeast corner of the city, which it surveyed and divided into burial lots, and on March 19, 1924, filed a map of such survey in the office of the register of deeds of Hennepin county for record, as required by G. S. 1923, §…