Legal Opinion
Fairlawn Cemetery Ass'n v. First Presbyterian Church, U. S. A. of Oklahoma City
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided April 25, 1972No. 43036PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HODGES, Justice.
Plaintiff is a nonprofit organization engaged in the business of selling burial lots with obligations for their perpetual care.
In 1911 the plaintiff erected a concrete fence wall around a portion of their cemetery. The wall was built five feet high, four inches thick and nine hundred feet long of which the west 540 feet is in dispute in this action. The wall was placed two & one-half inches inside the property line of the plaintiff.
Plaintiff complains that in 1953 and 1954 the defendant commenced the construction of their church on the vacant land south of' this fence and…
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