Trustees of the Academy v. Bohler
Supreme Court of Georgia
Taxes. Roney. 3887.' Constitutional law. Charities. Before Judge Richmond county. At chambers, October 28, Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
The testator devised to trustees and their successors, all his real estate in the city of Augusta, the annual product to be by them appropriated to the erection of. a poor-house in Richmond county, and for the support of its inmates *160forever. See City Council of Augusta vs. Walton et al. 77 Ga. 517. No poor-house has been erected, but the trustees are accumulating a fund for the purpose, and first for the purchase of a suitable site therefor, from the income of the devised property. This property, worth, say $75,000, was assessed for State and county taxes for the year…
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