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- Title: Retreat v. County of Los Angeles
- Author : Supreme Court Of California
- Release Date : January 18, 1950
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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Plaintiff brought this action to recover certain taxes paid under protest for the tax year 1946-1947. The question to be determined is the tax status of that portion of plaintiffs building, a retreat house, used as living quarters for four priests and six lay-brothers who attend to the spiritual and temporal needs of laymen making the retreats. Plaintiff relies on the welfare tax exemption extended to "property used exclusively for religious . . . or charitable purposes." (Cal. Const., art. XIII, § 1c; Rev. & Tax. Code, § 214.) The trial