Wagner Free Institute v. Philadelphia
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY PLAINTIFF FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 3 OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. No. 320 January Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 776 December Term 1887, C. P. No. 3, in Equity.
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APPEAL BY PLAINTIFF FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 3 OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. No. 320 January Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 776 December Term 1887, C. P. No. 3, in Equity. On February 10,1888, the Wagner Free Institute of Science filed a bill in equity against tbe city of Philadelphia, Henry Clay and others, praying for an injunction to restrain the defendants from assessing and collecting taxes for the years subsequent to 1884, upon certain real estate which had been given and conveyed to the plaintiff and the revenue of which was devoted to its support, but which was not annexed…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Mitchell:
The legal question in this case is identical with that in Wagner Institute’s App., 116 Pa. 555, but, in deference to the urgency of counsel for this worthy and deserving institution, we have examined the w'hole case anew. Briefly stated, the ques*614tion is whether the real estate not occupied by or annexed to the institute building itself, but the revenue from which is devoted to its support, is exempt from taxation.
The institute was chartered by a special act of assembly, March 9, 1855, which it is conceded would not exempt the property now in question. But a…
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