Appeal of the Wagner Free Institute of Science
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
No. 351 January Term 1886, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 749 March Term 1885, C. P. No. 2, in Equity. This cause was a proceeding in the court below to determine whether or not certain real estate of The Wagner Free Institute of Science in the city of Philadelphia was exempt from taxation, and the admitted facts appear in the following .case stated: The plaintiff was incorporated by an act of the legislature of Pennsylvania, approved the ninth day of March, 1855, P. L. 66, for…
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No. 351 January Term 1886, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 749 March Term 1885, C. P. No. 2, in Equity. This cause was a proceeding in the court below to determine whether or not certain real estate of The Wagner Free Institute of Science in the city of Philadelphia was exempt from taxation, and the admitted facts appear in the following .case stated: The plaintiff was incorporated by an act of the legislature of Pennsylvania, approved the ninth day of March, 1855, P. L. 66, for the object, as set forth in section 2 of said act, of giving gratuitous instruction in the natural sciences, such as…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Green:
The property for which exemption from taxation is claimed by the appellant consists of two contiguous lots of ground on Eleventh street, Philadelphia, each sixteen feet front and one hundred feet deep, and each with two dwelling houses erected thereon ; and also a lot of one hundred and seventy-seven feet ten inches front and one hundred and eighty-six feet depth, *563on Seventeenth street, Philadelphia. On the last mentioned lot are twenty-four dwelling houses. These properties are rented and yield an income which is applied to the support of the appellant.
As these…
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