Cave Hill Cemetery Co. v. Gosnell

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson

Reversing.

George W. Gosnell received an apportionment warrant from the city of Louisville against the property of the Cave Hill Cemetery Company for paving with brick a portion of the carriage way of Payne street. The amount of the warrant was $1,115.49. He brought this suit against the Cemetery Company to subject the abutting land to its payment. The Cemetery Company answered in substance that it was a quasi public corporation without stockholders, empowered to conduct a cemetery, not held for private or corporate profit; that all of its lands and…