Society of the Precious Blood v. Board of Tax Appeals

By the Court.

The sole question presented in cause No. 31002, as stated by counsel for appellant, is whether the real property of a nonprofit, charitable, educational and religious monastic order is subject to taxation, where such property is used as a mission school in the final phase of the training of young men to become missionaries of the' Gospel and to administer to the needs of everyone regardless of race, creed or color, and where the members of the order receive no pay or compensation for their work.

Under Section 2, Article XII of the Constitution of Ohio, “houses used exclusively…