Malone-Hogan Hospital Clinic Foundation, Inc. v. City of Big Spring

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

The City of Big Spring, Big -Spring Independent School District, State of Texas, Howard County and Howard County Junior College sued Malone-Hogan Hospital Clinic Foundation, Inc. for taxes on the Foundation’s hospital and grounds. It was stipulated that the only question to be determined was whether the Foundation was a purely public charity and, therefore, that its hospital and grounds were exempt from taxation. One issue was submitted to a jury, to-wit: “From the preponderance of the evidence do you find that the hospital of the defendant corporation, since it…