City of McAllen v. Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society

*808DENTON, Justice.

The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society brought this suit to enjoin the City of McAllen and the McAllen Independent School District from levying and collecting ad valorem taxes on an intermediate nursing home owned and operated by the Society in McAllen. The trial court issued the injunction prayed for upon concluding that the Society’s operation of the facility met the requisites of a purely public charity and therefore was exempt from taxation under the terms of Article 8, Section 2 of the Texas Constitution and Article 7150, Section 7 of Vernon’s Texas Civil…