Page v. Symonds
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Petition, addressed to a justice and by him adjourned into the law term for a temporary injunction pending a bill'in equity for a perpetual injunction against the removal of the remains of the plaintiff’s father, mother, and brother from a public cemetery in the town of Lisbon.
1Opinion of the CourtCl auk, J.
The law requires every town to provide a suitable public cemetery, and subjects it to such regulations as the town may establish. When there is a public necessity for the establish ment of a new cemetery, and land necessary therefor cannot. be obtained in a suitable place at a reasonable price by contract with the owner, the selectmen, upon petition therefor, may lay out a cemetery and appraise the damage to the land-owner. All proceedings upon such petition, and the return and record of such proceedings, and the remedy of a land-owner, if he is dissatisfied with the location or the damages…
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