Vermilion Parish Police Jury v. Doe

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• \no particular instrument or ceremony is required to dedicate a tract of land to cemetery purposes. Its actual use as such is sufficient\
• “no particular instrument or ceremony is required to dedicate a tract of land to cemetery purposes. Its actual use as such is sufficient”
• condemnation of land that had formerly been owned by county and used to bury paupers and convicts
• abandonment shown by evidence “that, if any bodies were ever buried on this land, their graves have been obliterated by the lapse of time, and abandoned by the living, and that such graves cannot now even be located or identified”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).