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WOODS SCHOOLS TAX EXEMPTION CASE

406 Pa. 579 (1962)

Woods Schools Tax Exemption Case.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 13, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter J. Collins, Jr., with him David F. Maxwell, and Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell and Hippel, for appellant.

Louis J. Goffman, with him Seymour Kurland, Morris Wolf, and Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, for all appellees.

Sidney T. Yates and John W. Dean, 3rd, for Middletown Township School District and Middletown Township, appellees.

Donald W. Vanartsdalen and Frederick T. Bebbington, for Langhorne Borough School District and Langhorne Borough, appellees.

Samuel S. Gray, Jr., for Bucks County, appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN and O'BRIEN, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE EAGEN, March 13, 1962:

This is a real estate tax assessment case. Total exemption from all real estate taxation is sought by the appellant, the Woods Schools, on the ground that it is a "purely public charity."

Woods Schools is a nonprofit corporation which maintains and operates a private institution in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, for the education, treatment and care of children and adults, who are physically, mentally, socially or...

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