Legal Opinion

Washelli Cemetery Ass'n. v. King County

Washington Supreme Court

Decided September 29, 1930No. 22376. Department TwoPublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtFullerton, J.

In this action, the appellant, Wash-elli Cemetery Association, sought to restrain the county of King from selling for delinquent taxes certain property owned by it, which it has devoted to cemetery purposes, and to recover from the county certain sums which it alleges it had paid the county as taxes on the property to prevent its distraint and sale.

The record discloses that, for some years preceding the year 1918, one Victor Denny owned a tract of land situated iu King county, which he had used or permitted to be used as a place for the burial of the dead. In the year named, Denny sold and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. City of Seattle v. Mount Pleasant Cemetery Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1910

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. San Gabriel Cemetery Ass'n v. County of Los AngelesCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1942
  2. Oakwood Co. v. Tacoma Mausoleum Ass'nWashington Supreme Court · 1945
  3. Westminster Memorial Park v. County of OrangeCalifornia Supreme Court · 1960
  4. Westminster Memorial Park v. County of OrangeCalifornia Supreme Court · 1960

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