BETHESDA GENERAL HOSPITAL v. STATE TAX COMMISSION

No. 50970.

396 S.W.2d 631 (1965)

BETHESDA GENERAL HOSPITAL, Respondent, v. The STATE TAX COMMISSION, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

December 13, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor A. Wallace, Barksdale, Abbott & Wallace, St. Louis, for respondent.

Thomas F. McGuire, City Counselor, City of St. Louis, James J. Wilson, Asst. City Counselor, St. Louis, Norman H. Andersen, Atty. Gen., W. Arnold Brannock, State Tax Commission, Jefferson City, for appellant.

George A. Rozier, Forrest P. Carson, Jefferson City, Elliott P. Koenig, Rassieur, Long & Yawitz, St. Louis, for amicus curiae, Hospital Assn. of Metropolitan St. Louis.


PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

The issue is whether seven residential properties owned by respondent, Bethesda General Hospital (a charitable corporation), and occupied rent free (at the time of placing thereof on the tax rolls, January 1, 1963) by certain hospital personnel, are subject to state, county and local real estate taxes under Article X, § 6, Const.Mo.1945, V.A.M.S., and § 137.100, RSMo 1959, V.A.M.S. The Constitution and said statute, a revenue law...

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