PA. H. REL. COMM. v. ALTO-RESTE P. CEM. ASSN.


453 Pa. 124 (1973)

Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, Appellant, v. Alto-Reste Park Cemetery Association.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

July 2, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sanford Kahn, General Counsel, with him Robert Englesberg, Assistant General Counsel, and Israel Packel, Attorney General, for appellant.

Robert E. Woodside, with him R.J. Woodside, James W. Nelson, Shearer, Mette, Hoerner & Woodside, and Nelson, Campbell & Levine, for appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY, NIX and MANDERINO, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, July 2, 1973:

On January 27, 1970, appellant, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, filed a complaint against appellee, the Alto-Reste Park Cemetery Association, alleging a violation of Section 5(i) of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act, Act of October 27, 1955, P.L. 744, as amended, 43 P.S. § 955(i) (Supp. 1973).1 The basis of this action was appellee's refusal, on account of race, to bury...

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