Christian Service Society v. County of Butte

WARNE, J. pro tem.*

Plaintiff, Christian Service Society, a membership cemetery corporation, successor in interest to the Chico Burial Society, appeals from a judgment denying plaintiff relief in an action for declaratory relief and declaring that plaintiff had established no preexisting or nonconforming use for cemetery purposes in the land involved herein prior to the adoption by Butte County of a certain interim zoning ordinance and a succeeding permanent zoning ordinance.

On August 4, 1953, plaintiff, through its predecessor in interest, acquired possession of certain real property…