St. Louis Lodge No. 9, B. P. O. E. v. Koeln

BROWN, C.

Elk’s Club Rooms Not Exempt from Taxation. This is a suit to cancel a tax bill issued against a lot in the city of St. Louis for city and school taxes for 1912. The lot is owned by the plaintiff and occupied exclusively by a building containing its lodge room, a hall used by the members and their wives, daughters and friends for entertainments such as dancing, card or other social parties, a rathskeller, where meals and other refreshments, including liquors, are served to the members and such guests as by the rules of the lodge they are permitted to entertain there, and an auditorium…