Gunter v. City of Jackson

This is an appeal by E. B. Gunter, representing the Baptist churches of this state (who for convenience will be referred to as the Church), from a judgment of the circuit court of the first district of Hinds county in favor of the city of Jackson, the appellee, for city taxes on a storehouse and lot owned by the Church in the said city. It is property which under section 934, Code of 1906 (section 4110, Hemingway’s Code), prescribing what property a religious society or congregation or ecclesiastical body may own, the Church has no right to own. Exemption from taxes is claimed under section…