CLOSE v. GLENWOOD CEMETERY


107 U.S. 466 (____)

CLOSE v. GLENWOOD CEMETERY. BORCHERLING v. GLENWOOD CEMETERY.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J. Hubley Ashton and Mr. Nathaniel Wilson for Close.

Mr. Cortlandt Parker and Mr. Walter D. Davidge for Borcherling.

Mr. Thomas W. Bartley, Mr. William F. Mattingly, and Mr. Jesup Miller for the appellee.


MR. JUSTICE GRAY delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a bill in equity, filed on the 25th of October, 1877, by the Glenwood Cemetery, claiming to be a corporation established by act of Congress, against Joseph B. Close, William S. Humphreys, Randolph S. Evans and George Clendenin, praying for a conveyance of the legal title in a tract of land containing ninety acres, situated in the District of Columbia, known as the Glenwood Cemetery; and for an account. The...

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