CARPENTER FOUNDATION v. WASHINGTON COUNTY

No. CX-84-922.

365 N.W.2d 772 (1985)

THOMAS E. AND EDNA D. CARPENTER FOUNDATION, Respondent, v. COUNTY OF WASHINGTON, Relator.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

April 12, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Kelly, Washington Co. Atty., Douglas G. Swenson, Asst. Co. Atty., Stillwater, for relator.

John E. Brandt, St. Paul, for respondent.

Considered and decided by the court en banc without oral argument.


AMDAHL, Chief Justice.

Washington County obtained a writ of certiorari to review a Tax Court determination that a claimed exemption from property taxes was effective for the year the taxes were payable, not assessed. We reverse.

The parties stipulated to facts before the Tax Court. The Thomas E. and Edna D. Carpenter Foundation is an institution of purely public charity within the meaning of Minn.Stat. § 272.02, subd. 1(6) (1984). The Foundation owns...

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