Philadelphia v. Keystone Battery A. National Guard of Penna
Citations
- 169 Pa. 526
- 32 A. 428
- 1895 Pa. LEXIS 1126
Syllabus
<p>[Marked to be reported.]</p> <p>Taxation — Public charity — Military organization.</p> <p>A military organization, maintained by state appropriations and public subscriptions, whose only object is gratuitous service to the public without any profit or expectation of gain, is a purely public charity, and its property is not subject to taxation.</p> <p>Under the act of June 4,1879, P. L. 90, such an organization cannot be taxed upon a lot and building which it had bought for the purpose of an armory, and subsequently abandoned for a better location, during the interval between the abandonment of the first building and the erection of the new one.</p>
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