RUTH IRON CO. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 334.

26 F.2d 30 (1928)

RUTH IRON CO. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

April 25, 1928.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Guy Chase, of St. Paul, Minn. (Francis W. Sullivan, of Duluth, Minn., and George W. Morgan, of St. Paul, Minn., on the brief), for petitioner.

H. R. Gamble, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen. (Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Asst. Atty. Gen., C. M. Charest, General Counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue, and John W. Fisher, Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, both of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for respondent.

Before KENYON and VAN VALKENBURGH, Circuit Judges, and JOHN B. SANBORN, District Judge.


VAN VALKENBURGH, Circuit Judge.

For many years prior to January 1, 1913, petitioner was the owner in fee of an undivided 107/960ths of the Kosmerl mine, situated in St. Louis county, Minn. In 1903 petitioner and its co-owners leased the property to the Oliver Iron Mining Company for a term of 51 years, ending in 1954, for mining purposes, at a royalty of 35 cents per ton. The lease provided for certain annual minimum payments. All such minimum royalties had been paid...

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