Roundtree v. Hutchinson
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Lewis county, Rice, J., entered May 21, 1909, .upon findings in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action for an injunction.
1Opinion of the CourtGose, J.
This is a bill in equity to restrain the defendant from desecrating a burial ground, and to establish the right to ingress and egress. There was a decree for the plaintiffs, and the defendant has appealed.
The case presented by the record is, was the tract of land dedicated to the public by the owner as a place of sepulture. The trial court found as a fact that “the declarations of consent and the conduct of Buchanan, acted upon and relied upon by the residents of Boistfort precinct from 1855 to the time of his sale to Wooley in 1884, was in fact an im*415plied dedication of this burying ground.”…
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