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BIRDVILLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST. v. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF HALTOM CITY

No. 2-87-239-CV.

788 S.W.2d 26 (1988)

BIRDVILLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, Tarrant County, and City of Haltom City, Appellants, v. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF HALTOM CITY, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

Rehearing Overruled May 15, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rohne, Hoodenpyle, Lobert & Myers and Wayne A. Rohne, Arlington, for appellants.

Gibbs & Craze Co., and Charlotte A. Cover, Cleveland, Ohio, for appellee.

Before BURDOCK, FARRIS and LATTIMORE, JJ.

OPINION

FARRIS, Justice.

Appellants sued appellee for delinquent taxes owed on property owned by appellee and used for a private school. Appellee contends that the procedure for claiming tax exempt status, i.e., the filing of an application for exemption, violated its religious tenets and restricted its free exercise of religion. The trial court held that the application procedure violated appellee's rights to...

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