Laurel Hill Cemetery v. City & County of San Francisco
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtSloss, J.
This action was brought to restrain the city and county of San Francisco and its officers from enforcing an ordinance prohibiting the interment of dead bodies within said city and county, and to obtain a decree declaring the ordinance void. The defendants answered and moved for judgment on the pleadings. Their motion was granted and the plaintiff appeals from the judgment entered upon the order so made.
This court has already, in Odd Fellows' Cemetery Association v. City and County of San Francisco, 140 Cal. 226, [73 Pac. 987], decided that the adoption of the ordinance in question was a valid…
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