· 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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