Wolford v. Crystal Lake Cemetery Ass'n
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff, Peter Wolford, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Henry G. Hicks, J., made March 22, 1893, denying his motion for a new trial. The defendant, the Crystal Lake Cemetery Association, was organized as a corporation on October 20, 1882, under 1878 G-. S. ch. 34, title 5. It purchased of S. H. Wood, June 7, 1883, the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section four (4) T. 29, R. 24, north of, and near Minneapolis.
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Appeal by plaintiff, Peter Wolford, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Henry G. Hicks, J., made March 22, 1893, denying his motion for a new trial. The defendant, the Crystal Lake Cemetery Association, was organized as a corporation on October 20, 1882, under 1878 G-. S. ch. 34, title 5. It purchased of S. H. Wood, June 7, 1883, the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section four (4) T. 29, R. 24, north of, and near Minneapolis. On February 2, 1886, the corporation by its board of trustees surveyed and platted the whole of the land as a cemetery, and caused the…
1Opinion of the CourtDickinson, J.
Prior to June, 1883, this defendant was, and ever since has been, an incorporated cemetery association, organized pursuant to 1878 G-. S. ch. 34, tit. 5. In that month and year it acquired the title to a tract of land of forty acres, ten acres of which has become the subject of this action; the ten acres comprising the northeast quarter of the forty-acre tract. In the year 1886 the corporation had the entire forty-acre tract platted into lots, avenues, and walks, and the plat thereof, showing that the land was thereby dedicated as a cemetery, to be used exclusively for the burial of the dead,…
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