People ex rel. Thompson v. St. Francis Xavier Female Academy

This is an appeal from a judgment of the county court of Cook county against certain lots of appellant in the city of Chicago for taxes for the year 1906.

Appellant is a corporation organized under a special act of the General Assembly in 1847 and given perpetual succession. It was given power to acquire, hold and convey real and personal property, and was required to hold the property of the institution solely for the purposes of educa- ■ tion and not as stock for the individual benefit of the incorporators or any contributor, and apply all funds collected, or the proceeds of the property, in…