Howard Association's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia: No. 113, to January Term 1871. The trustees of the Howard Sunday School Building were incorporated April 9th 1849 (Pamph.
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Appeal from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia: No. 113, to January Term 1871. The trustees of the Howard Sunday School Building were incorporated April 9th 1849 (Pamph. L. 1850, 998), to take and hold “ real estate for the purpose of erecting thereon a suitable building or buildings for the use of the Howard Sunday School Association, and such other purposes as the said corporation may deem expedient in communicating moral and religious instruction ; also to take and hold, for the use of the said Sunday school association, any goods, &c.” The corporation purchased a lot…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, January 29th 1872, by
Thompson, C. J.
We cannot affirm the judgment of the court below without ignoring the Act of Assembly of the 18th March 1868. The 1st sect, declares “that the real estate, situate on Shippen street, below Fourth street, in the city of Philadelphia, owned by the Howard Sunday School Association, be and the same is hereby exempted from all taxation so long as the same may be used for charitable or religious purposes, except state taxes.”
The board of revision, on an appeal from the assessment of the property for city or municipal…
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