ANDERSON v. MOUNT ZION CEMETERY ASSOCIATION


184 A.2d 86 (1962)

Leon V. ANDERSON, Helen F. Loatman and Ruth A. Winchester, Plaintiffs, v. The MOUNT ZION CEMETERY ASSOCIATION, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Harrison Hackett, Sr., Wyona S. Lambert, Rosie D. Redding, Joseph Brown and Hannibal Cooper, Defendants, Harry A. Simeone and Alexis Caserta, Intervenors.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

August 30, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis L. Redding, Wilmington, for plaintiffs.

G. A. Peterson, Wilmington, for defendants.

James P. Collins of Metten, Healy & Collins, Wilmington, for intervenors.


MARVEL, Vice Chancellor.

Plaintiffs, who are allegedly members of Mount Zion Cemetery Association, brought this action for the primary purpose of preventing such defendant from selling a portion of its cemetery property. Mount Zion Cemetery Association is a non-profit corporation incorporated in 1903 for the purpose of maintaining a place of "sepulture or burial of the dead" in Wilmington, its charter providing inter alia...

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