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· 10/19/1888

Maltby v. Plummer

Citations

  • 71 Mich. 578
  • 40 N.W. 3
  • 1888 Mich. LEXIS 655

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that farmland located adjacent to a college campus and used to produce food for the college dormitories, a women’s dormitory, and faculty residences was exempt from taxation as “reasonably necessary for the accomplishment” of the college’s purposes
  • “The fact remains that all [of the property] is in use, and, except as to incidental matters, wholly devoted -8- to present legitimate purposes of the [educational] institution.”
  • “That dormitories for students are reasonably necessary for institutions like defendant is beyond doubt. For years such have been maintained in this and other states whenever means were available.”

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Judges: Campbell, Champlin, Long, Morse, Sherwood

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