King v. Elrod

The bill in this cause was filed asking a mandatory injunction, the removal of a lock across a roadway leading to a cemetery and for damages double the amount suffered by the complainants. The gravamen of the bill is that the defendants, appellees here, had desecrated and destroyed an ancient family cemetery in which distant relatives of the complainants had been buried. A, demurrer setting forth numerous grounds was filed in due season and after argument the demurrer in all particulars was sustained and the bill dismissed. A motion for rehearing was filed which after being overruled the case…