FREDERICKA HOME v. COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO

Docket No. L.A. 20634.

35 Cal.2d 789 (1950)

221 P.2d 68

FREDERICKA HOME FOR THE AGED (a Corporation), Respondent, v. COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank

August 18, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred N. Howser, Attorney General, E.G. Benard, Deputy Attorney General, James Don Keller, District Attorney, and Carroll H. Smith, Chief Trial Deputy District Attorney, for Appellant.

Gray, Cary, Ames & Driscoll and John M. Cranston for Respondent.


SPENCE, J.

Plaintiff, a nonprofit corporation operating a home for elderly people on a "life care contract" basis, brought this action to recover taxes paid under protest for the tax year 1946-1947. It claimed that it was a charitable organization devoting its property exclusively to charitable purposes and so entitled to the benefit of the recently adopted welfare exemption. (Cal. Const., art. XIII, § 1c; Rev. & Tax. Code, § 214.) With certain exceptions...

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