Enochs v. City of Jackson

Smith C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellants appealed to the court below from an assessment for municipal taxation by the city of Jackson of certain real property in the city of Jackson, the title to which is held by them, in trust, for the Capitol Street Methodist Church, and claimed by them to be exempt from taxation under section 4251, Code of 1906 (section 6878, Hemingway’s Code, and from a judgment approving the assessment they have brought the case to this court.

The Capitol Street Methodist Church, as its name imports, is a religious society, and, some years ago,…