Dunlap v. Union Lodge, No. 15

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.: This was an action to enjoin the sale and transfer of cemetery property belonging to an Odd Fellows lodge. The purchaser was a corporation chartered to conduct that sort of business.

Plaintiffs are the owners of burial lots in Maplewood cemetery, situated near the city of Emporia. The defendant, Union lodge, No. 15, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is the local Odd Fellows lodge in Emporia. It owns the cemetery, having acquired the original 10% acres of its present extent three quarters of a century ago. The lodge has conducted the…