SOUTHEASTERN BAPTIST THEOLOG. SEM. v. WAKE COUNTY

No. 455.

112 S.E.2d 528 (1960)

251 N.C. 775

SOUTHEASTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, INC. v. WAKE COUNTY and Town of Wake Forest.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 29, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Banks, J. C. Keeter, Wright T. Dixon, Jr., Raleigh, for defendants-appellants.

Mordecai, Mills & Parker, Raleigh, for plaintiff-appellee.


WINBORNE, Chief Justice.

The Constitution of North Carolina, Article V, Section 5, declares in respect to property exempt from taxation, that "The General Assembly may exempt * * * property held for educational, scientific, literary, charitable or religious purposes * * *." And pursuant to the authority so given by the Constitution the General Assembly has enacted a statute, G.S. § 105-296, declaring in pertinent part that "the following real property, and no...

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