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UNITED HOSPITALS ASSN. v. FULTON COUNTY

20847.

216 Ga. 30 (1960)

114 S.E.2d 524

UNITED HOSPITALS SERVICE ASSOCIATION v. FULTON COUNTY et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided May 5, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Buchanan, Edenfield & Sizemore, for plaintiff in error.

Smith, Kilpatrick, Cody, Rogers & McClatchey, Harold Sheats, J. C. Murphey, contra.

DUCKWORTH, Chief Justice.

"All institutions of purely public charity" may be exempt by law from taxation. Upon the meaning of the above italicized words, contained in art. 7, sec. 1, par. 4 (Code § 2-5404) of the Constitution, rests the fate of the present case. There is an array of decisions by this court in which this provision of the Constitution was applied to given cases and judgments rendered which were made...

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