Legal Opinion
Savannah Cemetery Group Inc. v. DePue-Wilbert Vault Co.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided December 1, 2010No. A10A1152PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PHIPPS, Presiding Judge.
This is an appeal from an order permanently enjoining the enforcement of a rule established by a private cemetery owner to prohibit the use of concrete vaults in its cemeteries. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
In 2008, the Savannah Cemetery Group, Inc., which owned five private cemeteries in the Savannah, Chatham County area (the “cemetery group”) established a rule prohibiting the use of concrete burial vaults in its cemeteries, requiring instead steel or polymer vaults. The cemetery group notified local funeral homes of the rule.
Several businesses in the…
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