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WHITE EARTH LAND v. COUNTY OF BECKER

No. CX-95-1161.

544 N.W.2d 778 (1996)

WHITE EARTH LAND RECOVERY PROJECT, Respondent, v. COUNTY OF BECKER, Relator.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

March 8, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Evans, Becker County Attorney, James D. Sinclair, Asst. Becker County Attorney, Detroit Lakes, for relator.

John P. Mandler, Minneapolis, for respondent.

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

OPINION

STRINGER, Justice.

We consider the real estate tax status of 715 acres of land in Becker County purchased by the White Earth Land Recovery Project (the Project) in 1992 as a part of a program of the Project to reacquire tracts of reservation land historically belonging to Anishinabe people but later sold off. The tax court held that based upon the corporate purpose, structure, and operations of the purchaser, the current use of the land and its intended...

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