Legal Opinion

Com. ex rel. MacCarter v. Mount Lawn Cemetery

Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Delaware County

Decided August 22, 1930No. 166Published

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

  1. Hooven Mercantile Co. v. Evans Mining Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
  2. Mount Sharon Cemetery CharterSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1923

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