County Commissioners v. Colorado Seminary
Supreme Court of Colorado
Appeal from District Court of Jefferson County. Appellee, the Colorado Seminary, was duly incorporated for educational purposes on the 5th of March, 1864, by an act of the territorial legislature. (The sections of this statute involved in the present case sufficiently appear in the opinion.) The corporation thus provided for accepted the provisions of the charter, was duly organized, and has been and is now a prosperous institution of learning.
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Appeal from District Court of Jefferson County. Appellee, the Colorado Seminary, was duly incorporated for educational purposes on the 5th of March, 1864, by an act of the territorial legislature. (The sections of this statute involved in the present case sufficiently appear in the opinion.) The corporation thus provided for accepted the provisions of the charter, was duly organized, and has been and is now a prosperous institution of learning. On the 25th of April, 1881, one James B. Avery donated and conveyed to the seminary certain lands aggregating about two hundred acres, “and the said…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Helm
The Colorado Seminary having been organized as a corporation, and having proceeded in the performance of its appointed work under the special charter granted by the territorial legislature, the provision of this charter allowing exemptions from taxation became a part of the contract existing between it and the state. This contract could not be impaired by subsequent legislation, constitutional or statutory. Cooley, Const. Lim. 415, and cases cited; Railway Co. v. McClure, 10 Wall. 511; White v. Hart, 13 Wall. 649; Delmas v. Insurance Co. *50014 Wall. 661. But, since it operates as a limitation of…
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