In re Cohen
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal from special term, Kings county. Petition by Howard Cohen for leave to disinter the remains of his deceased mother from the cemetery of the Congregation Shearith Israel, in the city of New York. From an order granting leave to disinter the remains, and directing the congregation to permit such disinterment, the congregation appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtWoodward, J.
The appellant is a religious corporation in the city of New York, owning a cemetery at Cypress Hills in Queens county. On March 2, 1890, the body of Adela Cohen, the mother of Howard Cohen, the petitioner in this proceeding, was buried in such cemetery at the instance of her husband, Daniel S. Cohen, who was at that time a seat holder in the Congregation Shearith Israel. The burial was not in a family plot, but in a regular row of graves provided for the interment of the remains of such persons as did not own a family plot in the cemetery; and next to the grave of Mrs.' *418Cohen was reserved a…
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