SERRA RETREAT v. COUNTY OF L.A.

Docket No. L.A. 20612.

35 Cal.2d 755 (1950)

221 P.2d 59

SERRA RETREAT (a Nonprofit Corporation), Respondent, v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

August 18, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel, and Andrew O. Porter, Deputy County Counsel, for Appellant.

Joseph Scott and J. Howard Ziemann for Respondent.


SPENCE, J.

Plaintiff brought this action to recover certain taxes paid under protest for the tax year 1946-1947. The question to be determined is the tax status of that portion of plaintiff's building, a retreat house, used as living quarters for four priests and six lay-brothers who attend to the spiritual and temporal needs of laymen making the retreats. Plaintiff relies on the welfare tax exemption extended to "property used exclusively for religious ... or charitable...

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