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In re Petition of Chester Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

Delaware County Court of Quarter Sessions

Decided April 9, 1946No. docket A-9PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

MacDade, P. J.,

On November 9, 1945, petitioners aforesaid filed a petition to remove bodies and sell the burial-ground on the westerly side of Edgmont Avenue, between Sixth and Seventh Streets, in the City of Chester, to which a responsive answer has been filed by Caroline Taylor Hughes, William Taylor, J-r., Sallie :P. Eyre Price, Caroline Hughes Keene, Elizabeth Upham Davis, John W. Gamble, for themselves and others, relatives of persons buried in said grounds.

Subsequently an appearance was entered by E. A. Howell, Esq., for the following: Isaac A. Pennypacker, Helen Heines Orth, Charles L.…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Craig v. First Presbyterian ChurchSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1879
  2. Campbell v. City of KansasSupreme Court of Missouri · 1890
  3. Kincaid's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1870
  4. Chew v. First Presbyterian Church of Wilmington, Del., Inc.District Court, D. Delaware · 1916
  5. Brown v. Lutheran ChurchSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1854

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. First Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church AppealSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1969

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