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MURPHY OIL CO. v. BURNET

No. 80.

287 U.S. 299 (1932)

MURPHY OIL CO. v. BURNET, COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 5, 1932.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Randolph E. Paul and Thomas R. Dempsey, with whom Messrs. Ferris D. Stone and Bradner W. Lee were on the brief, for petitioner.

Assistant Attorney General Youngquist, with whom Solicitor General Thacher, and Messrs. Whitney North Seymour, Sewall Key, and J. Louis Monarch were on the brief, for the respondent.

MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case is here on certiorari, 286 U.S. 541, to review a judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 55 F.2d 17, which reversed an order of the Board of Tax Appeals, 15 B.T.A. 1195, and sustained a ruling of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue fixing the amount of depletion to be allowed and deducted from royalties received by petitioner in 1919 and 1920 as the lessor...

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