In re Katz

This is an application by a husband to disinter the body of his wife who is buried at Mt. Zion Cemetery in a plot owned by the Independent Serether Sick & Benevolent Society (hereafter referred to as the “ society ”) in order that she may be reinterred in another cemetery in which her son has purchased a family plot.

Decedent was a member of the society, and, by reason of such membership, entitled to a free burial and grave. The fact that the society was organized under the Membership Corporations Law and neither conducts religous services nor is connected with any synagogue, has no bearing…