Legal Opinion
Sapper v. Mathers
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided April 19, 1926No. Appeal, 139PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Walling,
In 1827, Elizabeth Iseminger conveyed a plot of ground, in what is now the City of Philadelphia, to certain named persons, as the deed recites: “In trust nevertheless and to and for the sole, exclusive and only use of the Mutual Family Burial Ground Association of the City and County of Philadelphia aforesaid and their executors forever, for a possession of burying place or ground unto the several members thereof, respectively and severally and not jointly, to be occupied and to be used by them, their heirs and assigns for no other purpose whatsoever than a…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Stuart v. EastonSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Drace v. KlinedinstSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1922
- First Methodist Episcopal Church v. Old Columbia Public Ground Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1883
- T. W. Phillips Gas & Oil Co. v. LingenfelterSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1919
- Brendle v. German Reformed CongregationSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1859
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3Cited by20 opinions
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- Mayes v. SimonsSupreme Court of Georgia · 1940
- The Choctaw and the Chickasaw Nations v. Board of County Commissioners of Love County, Oklahoma, and Texaco, Inc., a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1966
- Lancaster School District v. Lancaster CountySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1928
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