Moritz v. United Brethrens Church on Staten Island

The plaintiff as objecting trustee sued to restrain the defendant, a religious corporation, from developing and using a certain plot of ground, purchased in 1923, as an addition to its long-existing cemetery; and to have it judicially declared that a resolution by its central board of trustees, adopted November 15, 1932, in respect to having plans and sketches of the plot made for future cemetery purposes, is illegal and void. The use of the property for the purposes intended is said, to be illegal because in violation of section 451 of the Real Property Law and section 1539-a of the Greater…