Pine Crest Memorial Park v. Burton

Carleton Harris, Chief Justice.

Pine Crest Memorial Park is a privately owned cemetery, organized and operated under the terms of a certain declaration of trust, dated January 30, 1930. The management of the cemetery is the responsibility of a board of trustees. Under the authority of the Declaration, the trustees are empowered to make rules and regulations for the operation of the property, and rule 42 provides that only bronze markers shall be used.1 In 1936, appellee’s mother purchased from appellant a cemetery lot having four grave spaces. Appellee’s father was buried on this lot in 1936,…