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BELT RY. CO. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 4814.

36 F.2d 541 (1929)

BELT RY. CO. OF CHICAGO v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Court of Appeals of District of Columbia.

Decided December 2, 1929.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Kemp Slaughter and Hugh C. Bickford, both of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mabel W. Willebrandt, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key, Thomas P. Dudley, Jr., John Vaughan Groner, C. M. Charest, and W. P. Hughes, all of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and ROBB and VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justices.

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

This appeal is from a decision of the United States Board of Tax Appeals, affirming the finding of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, denying appellant company the right to deduct depreciation charges for the years 1916 and 1917.

The petitioner, the Belt Railway Company of Chicago, is an Illinois corporation engaged in operating freight and passenger train terminal facilities in Chicago for the benefit of 12 railway companies...

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