Nature Conservancy of Pine Tree State, Inc. v. Town of Bristol

How courts have described this case

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• holding that requirement that property be used \solely\ for institution's own purposes prohibits tax exemption where grantor of property to charity maintains private rights of use
• holding that requirement that property be used “solely” for institution’s own purposes prohibits tax exemption where grantor of property to charity maintains private rights of use
• denying exemption to a nature preserve on which the grantors had reserved rights-of-way
• denying exemption to a nature preserve on which the grantors had reserved rights-of-way
• determining a property’s exemption status by analyzing the scope of non-exempt rights of use to the property and whether they interfered with the organization’s tax-exempt purposes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).