McDERMOTT, Circuit Judge.
These four appeals present the same question: The taxpayers own royalty interests under ordinary oil and gas leases; during the taxable years, they received their contract share of the oil produced and have sold it. Are the proceeds of such sales taxable as ordinary income, or are they taxable as capital gains arising from the sales of capital assets held by the taxpayers for more than two years? The trial court held to the latter view, and...
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