People ex rel. Gaskill v. Forest Home Cemetery Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. John B. McGoorTy, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
The circuit court of Cook county sustained the demurrer of appellees, the Forest Home Cemetery Company and its officers, to the petition of the People, on the relation of John B. Gaskill, for a writ of mandamus commanding the appellees to receive for burial the body of Pinkie B. Gas-kill, deceased, late wife of the relator, and to permit the burial thereof in the usual and customary manner and in a place suitable for such burial, upon the payment of the usual and fixed charges for such service and accommodation. The relator elected to stand by the petition, whereupon it was dismissed at his…
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