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4.Taxation: Property: Charities. Property which is owned <br /> and used primarily for the purpose of furnishing low-rent <br /> Page 351 housing is not entitled to exemption from taxation as <br /> property which is owned and used exclusively for charitable <br /> 243 Neb.351(Neb.1993) purposes. <br /> 500 N.W.2d 520 5.Taxation:Property.The primary or dominant use of the <br /> property, and not an incidental use, is controlling in <br /> EV. LUTHERAN GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY, determining whether a property is exempt from taxation. <br /> Doing Business as St.Luke's Good Samaritan Village, <br /> Appellant, 6.Taxation: Property. The encouragement of tenants to <br /> participate in religious services or to attend other religious <br /> v. services off-premises would not in and of itself constitute <br /> BUFFALO COUNTY BOARD of EQUALIZATION et the rental of apartments as exclusive for religious purposes <br /> or be capable of being deemed sufficient to overcome a <br /> al.,Appellees. county board of equalization's finding that the primary <br /> No.5-90-1050. purpose of the rentals was to famish low-rent housing, <br /> which is not entitled to exemption from taxation as property <br /> Supreme Court of Nebraska. owned and used exclusively for religious purposes. <br /> April29,1993 7. Courts: Judgments: Appeal and Error. When the record <br /> indicates that the decision of the trial court is correct, <br /> [500 N.W.2d 5211 although for reasons different from those relied upon below, <br /> an appellate court will affirm the trial court's decision. <br /> Syllabus by the Court <br /> 8.Administrative Law. A county board of equalization is <br /> 1. Summary Judgment: Appeal and Error. In appellate an administrative agency of the county. <br /> review of a summary judgment, the court views the <br /> evidence in a light most favorable to the party against 9.Constitutional Law:Administrative Law:Legislature.As <br /> whom the judgment is granted and gives such party the an administrative agency, a county board of equalization <br /> benefit of all reasonable inferences deducible from the has no authority to determine the constitutionality of an act <br /> evidence. of the Legislature. <br /> 2.Summary Judgment.Summary judgment is to be granted 10. Constitutional Law:Legislature: Appeal and Error. A <br /> only when the pleadings, depositions, admissions, constitutional challenge to an act of the Legislature may be <br /> stipulations,and affidavits in the record disclose that there raised initially on appeal from a decision of a county board <br /> is no genuine issue as to any material fact or as to the of equalization. <br /> ultimate inferences that may be drawn from those facts and <br /> that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of 11.Actions: Pleadings. When there are multiple causes of <br /> law, action pleaded in civil proceedings, they should be <br /> designated numerically. <br /> 3. Summary Judgment: Proof, A party moving for <br /> summary judgment has the burden to show that no genuine 12. Taxation: Appeal and Error. An appeal to the district <br /> issue of material fact exists and must furnish sufficient court concerning a decision of a county board of <br /> evidence to demonstrate that the moving party is entitled to equalization is a trial de novo, but only the tax liability <br /> judgment as a matter of law if the evidence presented for questions raised before the board of equalization are <br /> summary judgment remains uncontroverted. After the questions for adjudication by the district court in its <br /> moving party has shown facts entitling it to a judgment as a appellate jurisdiction. <br /> matter of law,the opposing party has the burden to present <br /> Page 522 <br /> Page 352 <br /> 13.Taxation:Valuation:Appeal and Error.A district court, <br /> evidence showing an issue of material fact which prevents acting in its appellate capacity, is without power to <br /> ajudgment as a matter of law for the moving party. adjudicate a question of uniformity and proportionality or <br /> any other factual question when such question or questions <br />