Com. ex rel. MacCarter v. Mount Lawn Cemetery
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Delaware County
1Opinion of the Court
Broomall, J.,
On March .7, 1930, the district attorney of this county filed a suggestion setting up, inter alia, that the Mount Lawn Cemetery was a corporation of the first class duly chartered by the court of common pleas of this county; that it had failed to set aside a sum equal to at least one-tenth of the gross amount of the funds arising from the sale of lots in its burial ground as provided by its charter; that it was selling lots to undertakers and other middlemen at prices below the resale by such purchasers ; that its real estate was encumbered by two mortgages; and that by reason of…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- Mount Sharon Cemetery CharterSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1923