Cherry v. Crown Hill Cemetery Trust

I do not doubt the liability of a part of the land involved, for taxation. Can it be that lots of a cemetery, not public in that the land is useful and used for pecuniary profit as the result of ownership by a private person, firm, or trust, is for sale and no part of the consideration expected to be received from such sale is devoted to beautifying the cemetery, contrary to the law applicable to corporations and municipally owned cemeteries, fraternal cemeteries, and the like, are not taxable?

This is a matter of public concern. By constitutional requirement and statutory law, all such land…