KLINE v. GREEN MOUNT CEMETERY

No. 1531, Sept. Term, 1995.

677 A.2d 623 (1996)

110 Md. App. 383

Virginia Eleanor Humbrecht KLINE, et al. v. GREEN MOUNT CEMETERY, et al.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

June 4, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark S. Zaid, Washington, DC, for Appellants.

Francis J. Gorman (Gorman & Williams, on the brief), Baltimore, for Appellee.

Before WILNER, C.J., EYLER, J., and JAMES S. GETTY, Judge (retired), Specially Assigned.


WILNER, Chief Judge.

The zany comedian, Groucho Marx, forever tried to stump contestants on his popular television quiz show with the question, "Who is buried in Grant's tomb?" That, of course, was farce and comedy. Appellants here are much more serious. They are distant relatives of John Wilkes Booth—the assassin of Abraham Lincoln—and they want to know who is buried in Booth's tomb.

To get that answer, appellants filed a petition in the Circuit...

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