Hanagan v. Grand Lodge

The majority opinion herein summarily changes the attitude which this court had steadily kept for over half a century toward tax exemptions established by our Constitution and our statutes in favor of religious, charitable *282and educational institutions. An unbroken line of our decisions is discarded—not expressly, but by implication ■—-and the fundamental principle underlying such exemptions is entirely overlooked. Interpretations which under universally accepted rules had become imbedded in the constitutional and statutory definitions and terms are suddenly cast aside.

In McGlone v. Baptist…