CEDARS OF LEBANON HOSP. v. COUNTY OF L.A.

Docket Nos. L.A. 20610, 20611, 20613, 20614, 20615, 20616.

35 Cal.2d 729 (1950)

221 P.2d 31

CEDARS OF LEBANON HOSPITAL (a Nonprofit Corporation), Respondent, v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Appellants. QUEEN OF ANGELS HOSPITAL (a Nonprofit Corporation), Respondent, v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Appellants. THE HOSPITAL OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN (a Nonprofit Corporation), Respondent, v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Appellants. MONTE SANO FOUNDATION (a Nonprofit Corporation), Respondent, v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Appellants. HUGH K. WALKER et al., as Trustees, etc., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Defendants and Appellants. LUTHERAN HOSPITAL SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (a Nonprofit Corporation), Plaintiff and Appellant, v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

August 18, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Faries & McDowell, Wayne R. Hackett, Musick, Burrell & Ingebretsen, Philip C. Jones and James E. Ludlam for Plaintiffs and Appellants in L.A. Nos. 20615 and L.A. 20616.

Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel, Andrew O. Porter, Deputy County Counsel, Ray L. Chesebro, City Attorney, Hugh H. MacDonald and Louis A. Babior, Deputy City Attorneys, for Defendants and Appellants.

Leonard G. Ratner, Joseph Scott, J. Howard Ziemann, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Bert A. Lewis, Musick, Burrell & Ingebretsen, Philip C. Jones and James E. Ludlam for Respondents.


SPENCE, J.

These are appeals by both plaintiffs and defendants from judgments entered after rulings on demurrers in six separate actions, each of which was brought by one of plaintiff hospitals to recover certain taxes and assessments paid under protest in view of the recently enacted welfare exemption. (Cal. Const., art. XIII, § 1c; Rev. & Tax. Code, § 214.)

The California welfare exemption was operative for the first time in the tax year 1946...

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