State v. Fisk University
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM DAVIDSON. Appeal from tlie Chancery Court of Davidson County. ANDREW Allison, Ch.
1Opinion of the CourtFolkes, J.
This is a bill filed by the State and county to collect taxes assessed for the year 1884 upon a lot containing six or eight acres. The cause was heard upon an agreed statement of *235facts, and tlie bill dismissed by the Chancellor, and is now before us on appeal by complainants.
The statement of facts is as follows:
First — “The Eisk University is an educational institution, chartered under the laws of Tennessee. It is a college for colored people of both sexes. Connected with the college is a dormitory, where from two hundred and fifty to three hundred boarding pupils are entertained. But this…
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