Legal Opinion
Hill School Tax Exemption Case
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 24, 1952No. Appeals, 40 and 41PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Allen M. Stearne,
The question presented is whether The Hill School, a Pennsylvania non-profit educational corporation, has been founded, endowed and maintained to a sufficient degree by public or private charity to entitle it to tax exemption under Article IX, Section 1, of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, and Article II, Section 204, of the Act of May 22, 1933, P. L. 853, amended by Section 1 of the Act of May 3, 1943, P. L. 158, 72 PS 5020,-204. The court below decided that it had so qualified. The borough and the school district have appealed.
The Constitution, supra,…
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