Quesenberry v. Meginniss

WILNER, Judge.

This proceeding began as an action to quiet title to a right of sepulture. None of the parties much cares whether technically that is a proper form of action, considering that the right of sepulture at issue here, according to statute, “shall not be considered property”; they simply want to know who among them is entitled to control burials in a certain crypt at Druid Ridge Cemetery.

*322In 1922, Esther R. Meginniss purchased cemetery Lot 703 from the Druid Ridge Cemetery Company. At some point, she built a private mausoleum on the lot, containing, we are told, six burial spaces, two…