When any donation or bequest is made by any person, company or corporation, of money or property to be used for the maintenance and preservation of any private or family cemetery or burying ground, and no trustee be appointed by such person, company or corporation, or if appointed, the trustee should die, resign, or otherwise become incompetent, the chancellor, on petition of any person having, or feeling, any interest therein, may, in vacation or in term-time, appoint a trustee to administer the trust on such terms as he may deem proper. If a trustee shall improperly administer the trust, he may be removed by the chancellor and another appointed.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-3
Appointment of trustee for private or family cemetery or burying ground
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Stuart v. Smith (1977)
Most recently applied in Stuart v. Smith (March 1977)
Codes, 1906, § 555; Hemingway’s 1917, § 315; 1930, § 362; 1942, § 1273.
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