Woodmere Cemetery v. Roulo

The highway commissioner of Springwells township, in the county of Wayne, ordered a highway to-*597be opened along the north side of Woodmere Cemetery, condemned a strip of land from the northernmost portion •of its premises, and awarded $300 damages. The land ■appropriated was not in use for burial purposes at the time, no burials having been made within a half mile of it, but it was purchased and held with a view to such use in the near future. The proceedings were removed by certiorari to the Wayne circuit court, where the writ was quashed upon the hearing.

Woodmere Cemetery is owned by a…