Legal Opinion

Chariton Cemetery Co. v. Chariton Granite Works

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided March 4, 1924PublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Vermilion, J.-

The plaintiff, a corporation owning land which had been platted, and devoted to and used for cemetery *404purposes, seeks to restrain the defendants, who were engaged in manufacturing, selling, and erecting monuments at graves of deceased persons, from constructing any foundations for monuments, markers, headstones, or other work of such character upon any lot in the cemetery, or from grading any lot or removing any earth in the cemetery, or from driving any conveyance upon any lot therein, or from doing any act in violation of the by-laws of the plaintiff company.

Certain of the…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Wyeth v. Board of Health of CambridgeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
  2. Brown v. HillIllinois Supreme Court · 1918
  3. Roanoke Cemetery Co. v. GoodwinSupreme Court of Virginia · 1903
  4. Nicolson v. DaffinSupreme Court of Georgia · 1914
  5. Ex parte AdlofCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1918

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3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Di Cristofaro v. Laurel Grove Memorial ParkNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1957
  2. People Ex Rel. Paxton v. Bloomington Cemetery Ass'nIllinois Supreme Court · 1933
  3. Scott v. Lakewood Cemetery Assn.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1926
  4. Wetherby v. City of JacksonMichigan Supreme Court · 1933
  5. Abell v. Proprietors of the Green Mount CemeteryCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1947

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