Opinion
No. 28120
Decided May 1, 1940.
Supreme Court — Dismissal — No debatable constitutional question involved — Taxation — Lessee under 99-year lease of land from university — Act creating university exempted land from state taxes — Liability of lessee far local taxes — Effect of lessee's payment of taxes — Section 28, Article II, Constitution — Section 10, Article I, U.S. Constitution.
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals of Butler county.
Mr. Joseph W. Sharts and Mr. John D. Andrews, for appellant.
Mr. Paul A. Baden, prosecuting attorney, for appellee, Joseph H. DuBois, county treasurer.
Mr. Thomas J. Herbert, attorney general, and Mr. Charles F. Ohl, for appellees, president and trustees of Miami University.
It is ordered and adjudged that said appeal as of right be, and the same hereby is, dismissed for the reason no debatable constitutional question is involved in said cause.
Appeal dismissed.
WEYGANDT, C.J., DAY, ZIMMERMAN, WILLIAMS, MYERS, MATTHIAS and HART, JJ., concur.