Nelson v. Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery Ass'n
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Chisago county for an injunction to restrain the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery Association of Chisago City from depositing or interring human bodies in its cemetery.
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Action in the district court for Chisago county for an injunction to restrain the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery Association of Chisago City from depositing or interring human bodies in its cemetery. The complaint, after describing the situation of Chisago City upon a strip of land between two large bodies of water about twenty-five hundred feet apart, and not over twenty-five feet higher than the level of the lakes, alleged that the premises of plaintiff, which are used by her and her family as a residence and contain a well on which she and her family are dependent for water, are…
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
Plaintiff and appellant brought this action to enjoin defendant, its officers and employees, from using certain property for cemetery purposes. The trial court, in substantially its own words, found that “the land platted [as a cemetery] is composed of about one foot in depth on the surface of loam, underneath which there is a stratum of clay, about twenty feet in depth, underneath which is sand. In said stratum of clay there have been found in some places a few small veins about an inch in diameter, some of which are vertical, some horizontal, and some oblique, but to what distance was not…
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