Colorado Seminary v. Board of County Commissioners

The controversy is between the county of Arapahoe, represented by its board of commissioners, and the Colorado Seminary; the former asserting and the latter denying, that certain property of the Seminary is subject to taxation. The case calls for a construction of the charter of the Seminary which was granted by an act of the legislative assembly of the territory of Colorado in 1864. — Session Laws 1864, p. 209. Section 5 and a portion of section 1 are the only provisions which are material. Among other things, section 1 constitutes the trustees named therein a body corporate “for the purpose…