Kline v. Green Mount Cemetery

WILNER, Chief Judge.

The zany comedian, Groucho Marx, forever tried to stump contestants on his popular television quiz show with the question, “Who is buried in Grant’s tomb?” That, of course, was farce and comedy. Appellants here are much more serious. They are distant relatives of John Wilkes Booth—the assassin of Abraham Lincoln—and they want to know who is buried in Booth’s tomb.

To get that answer, appellants filed a petition in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City to have the remains of the person thought to be John Wilkes Booth exhumed from the Booth family plot in Green Mount Cemetery…