State v. Settegast

There is but a single question presented by this appeal, and that is: Did the Hermann Hospital Estate, at the time the taxes sued for were sought to be collected, constitute an institution .of purely public charity, within the meaning of our constitutional and statutory provisions on that subject? If it did, as the trial court held, the property involved was exempt, and judgment was properly rendered below for the Hospital Estate; if it did not, the state should have been permitted a recovery.

The agreed facts, in so far as deemed material, were these:

In November, 1917, the state brought the…