LA CROSSE FOUNDATION, INC. v. TOWN OF WASHINGTON

No. 93-1163.

182 Wis.2d 490 (1994)

513 N.W.2d 417

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE FOUNDATION, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TOWN OF WASHINGTON, and La Crosse County, Defendants-Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided February 24, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiff-appellant the cause was orally argued by Terence R. Collins and submitted on the briefs of Terence R. Collins and Thomas E. Knothe of Cameron, Collins & Quillin, Ltd., of La Crosse.

For the defendant-respondent Town of Washington the cause was orally argued and submitted on the brief of Darrel A. Talcott of West Salem.

For the defendant-respondent La Crosse County the cause was orally argued and submitted on the brief of David L. Lange, assistant corporation counsel, of La Crosse.

Before Eich, C.J., Dykman and Sundby, JJ.


SUNDBY, J.

The University of Wisconsin—La Crosse Foundation, Inc. (Foundation) owns eleven parcels of real estate in the Town of Washington, La Crosse County, where it maintains an arboretum and nature center known as "Norskedalen." Section 70.11(20), STATS., exempts from general property taxes real and personal property owned and used as is Norskedalen. However, § 70.11(20) provides that the "exemption afforded by this subsection shall not be granted...

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