Sutter Realty Co. v. City Council

This is an appeal by the city of Sacramento from a judgment in favor of petitioner and respondent, Sutter Realty Company, a nonprofit cemetery corporation.

Respondent was first incorporated in 1905 as the Odd Fellows’ Lawn Cemetery, for the purpose of operating a cemetery. On November 22, 1932, its articles of incorporation were amended in order to qualify as a nonprofit corporation in conformity with the General Cemetery Act (Stats. 1931, chap. 1148, p. 2434; Deering’s Gen. Laws, 1937, Act 1288). No by-laws have been adopted by respondent. However, on August 2, 1932, the corporation adopted…