CITY OF ST. LOUIS v. STATE TAX COMMISSION

No. 57646.

524 S.W.2d 839 (1975)

CITY OF ST. LOUIS et al., Petitioners-Respondents, v. STATE TAX COMMISSION of Missouri et al., Defendants, and The Engineers' Club of St. Louis, a not-forprofit corporation, Defendant-Appellant. The ENGINEERS' CLUB OF ST. LOUIS, a Missouri Corporation, Defendant-Appellant, v. STATE TAX COMMISSION of Missouri, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

July 14, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. McNicholas, Jack L. Koehr, City Counselors, James J. Wilson, Associate City Counselor, St. Louis, for petitionerrespondent City of St. Louis.

Willard B. Bunch, County Counselor, John Edward Cash, Associate County Counselor, Kansas City, for amicus curiae, Jackson County, Missouri.

Lashly, Caruthers, Thies, Rava & Hamel, Elihu M. Hyndman, William I. Rutherford, St. Louis, for defendant-appellant.


MORGAN, Judge.

This opinion is written after a recent reassignment of the case, and it presents the limited question of whether real property of The Engineers' Club of St. Louis is exempt as a charity from ad valorem taxes for the year 1970. We hold that it is.

Much of the factual recitation found in the opinion originally written follows without benefit of quotation marks.

In 1970 the assessor of the city of St. Louis assessed at the value of $230...

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