People ex rel. Buffalo Turn Verein v. Assessors of the City of Buffalo

Order affirmed, with costs. Memorandum: The legislative enactment [Laws of 1869, chap. 658, as amd. by Laws of 1894, chap. 12] incorporating relator states that one of its objects is the education of its members and others. Therefore, the relator was not exceeding its corporate powers in admitting non-members to join its physical *903education classes. The relator did not forfeit its right to exemption of its property from taxation because non-members were permitted upon payment of a fee to receive the benefit of an activity which carried into effect one of the main objects for which the relator…