BURNET v. BURNS

No. 9472.

63 F.2d 313 (1933)

BURNET, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, v. BURNS.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 28, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erwin N. Griswold, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (G. A. Youngquist, Asst. Atty. Gen., Sewall Key, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., and C. M. Charest, Gen. Counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue, and J. R. Johnston and L. M. Berrien, Sp. Attys., Bureau of Internal Revenue, all of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for petitioner.

J. C. Campbell, of Charles City, Iowa, for respondent.

Before KENYON, GARDNER, and SANBORN, Circuit Judges.


SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

This is a petition to review a decision of the Board of Tax Appeals. McGlone v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 22 B. T. A. 358.

In September, 1918, R. E. Wade and H. E. Brouillard, of Oklahoma, and J. M. Burns and J. C. Campbell, of Charles City, Iowa, purchased an oil lease upon ten acres of land in the Burkburnett Oil Filed in Texas. They had no means to develop the property, and, in order to secure from friends $30,000, the amount...

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