In re Cohen
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the Congregation Shearith Israel in the City of New York from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term, bearing date the 14th day of March, 1902, and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings, granting leave to the petitioner to disinter the remains of his deceased mother, Adela Cohen, from the grave in which they then reposed in the cemetery of the Congregation Shearith Israel, to the end that such remains might be…
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Appeal by the Congregation Shearith Israel in the City of New York from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term, bearing date the 14th day of March, 1902, and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings, granting leave to the petitioner to disinter the remains of his deceased mother, Adela Cohen, from the grave in which they then reposed in the cemetery of the Congregation Shearith Israel, to the end that such remains might be reinterred in the family plot of the petitioner in Mount Neboh Cemetery.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.;
The appellant is a religious corporation in the city of New York owning a cemetery at Cypress Hills in Queens county. On March 2, 1890, the body of Adela Cohen, the mother of Howard Cohen, the petitioner in this proceeding, was buried in such cemetery at the instance of her husband, Daniel S. Cohen, who was at that time a seatholder in the Congregation Shearith Israel. The burial was not in a family plot, but in a regular row of graves provided for the interment of the remains of such persons as did not own a family plot in the cemetery; and next to the grave of Mrs. Cohen was.…
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