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Atlas Fence Co. v. West Ridgelawn Cemetery

Court of Errors and Appeals
May 17, 1935
178 A. 728 (N.J. 1935)

Opinion

Submitted February term, 1935.

Decided May 17th, 1935.

On appeal of William Bittles. On appeal from the court of chancery.

Mr. Robert Carey and Mr. Harry Lane, for the complainants.

Mr. Merritt Lane and Mr. Louis A. Fast, for the defendants.


The order in this case from which the present appeal is taken is affirmed for the reasons expressed in the short memorandum filed in the court below, with the single comment that the statement in that memorandum that "a mortgage on cemetery lands is not a lien on the lands in the same sense that a mortgage is a lien on ordinary real estate," must be limited to the facts of this case. We are not to be understood as holding that a mortgagee of lands which are subsequently devoted to cemetery purposes without his knowledge and consent can be deprived of his contractual rights under the general execution laws of the state.

For affirmance — THE CHIEF-JUSTICE, PARKER, LLOYD, CASE, BODINE, DONGES, HEHER, PERSKIE, VAN BUSKIRK, KAYS, HETFIELD, DEAR, WELLS, JJ. 13.

For reversal — None.


Summaries of

Atlas Fence Co. v. West Ridgelawn Cemetery

Court of Errors and Appeals
May 17, 1935
178 A. 728 (N.J. 1935)
Case details for

Atlas Fence Co. v. West Ridgelawn Cemetery

Case Details

Full title:ATLAS FENCE COMPANY et al., complainants, v. WEST RIDGELAWN CEMETERY et…

Court:Court of Errors and Appeals

Date published: May 17, 1935

Citations

178 A. 728 (N.J. 1935)
178 A. 728

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