Evangelical Lutheran Synod v. Hoehn

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of the City of St. Louis iii favor of the defendants-respondents and against the plaintiffs-appellants, in a suit brought by the latter in November, 1944, seeking an adjudication that their real estate in that city was exempt from 1944 city taxes under Sec. 6, Art. X of the Constitution of Missouri, 1875, and Sec. 10937 of the statutes, 1 on the ground that the real estate was and is exclusively used for religious worship and purposes purely charitable; and praying a mandatory injunction requiring the expungement of the city record…