City of Biloxi v. Trustees of Mississippi Annual Conference Endowment Fund

For the year 1936, the tax assessor of the City of Biloxi assessed certain property, known. ,as the Seashore Camp Ground, to the Seashóre Methodist Assembly. After publication of notice to the taxpayers of the filing of the assessment roll, the appellee, a body corporate under and by virtue of a charter granted by chapter 439 of the Acts of the Legislature of 1888, filed a petition alleging that, in recognition of its character as a religious organization for the benefit of superannuated Methodist preachers and their widows and orphans under the age of 16 years, the Legislature, under its…