Mount Olivet Cemetery Co. v. City of Fort Worth

MASSEY, Chief Justice.

The City of Fort Worth proposed to pave a street running alongside and adjacent to the Mount Olivet Cemetery Company in Fort Worth, Texas. Attempt was made to secure the Cemetery Company’s execution of a contract in connection therewith which would have entitled the City to a lien upon certain of the abutting Cemetery property, more than 20 acres of which had not been theretofore actually used for cemetery purposes, though it was a part of the whole of the real property of said Company which had been dedicated as a public cemetery under statutory provisions. The Company…