Union Cemetery Ass'n v. Kansas City
Decision Date | 11 November 1913 |
Citation | 252 Mo. 466,161 S.W. 261 |
Parties | UNION CEMETERY ASS'N et al. v. KANSAS CITY et al. |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
In Banc. Appeal from Circuit Court, Jackson County; O. A. Lucas, Judge.
Action by the Union Cemetery Association and others against Kansas City and others. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiffs appeal. Reversed.
The plaintiffs, the appellants here, who for convenience will hereafter be designated by the former appellation, instituted this suit in the circuit court of Jackson county to enjoin the respondents, who hereafter will be referred to as "defendants," from enforcing an ordinance of the city, duly enacted by the common council thereof, and approved by the mayor, July 14, 1910, forbidding burials in the grounds of the Union Cemetery, a corporation duly incorporated under the laws of this state, by a special act of the Legislature, approved November 9, 1857.
In order to fully and properly understand the positions of the respective parties to this suit, it will be necessary for us to set forth both the act incorporating the cemetery and the ordinance prohibiting further burials therein.
Said act of the Legislature reads as follows:
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