BERMONT OIL CO. v. HELVERING

No. 6791.

91 F.2d 710 (1937)

BERMONT OIL CO. v. HELVERING, Com'r of Internal Revenue.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided May 17, 1937.

Rehearing Denied August 5, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph F. Moore, of Berryville, Va., for petitioner.

Robert H. Jackson and James W. Morris, Asst. Attys. Gen., and Sewall Key, Herman Oliphant, Isadore Groff, and A. M. Sellers, all of Washington, D. C., for respondent.

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


GRONER, J.

Petitioner is a Delaware corporation operating in Oklahoma. In its tax return for the year 1930 it deducted approximately $145,000 as a loss sustained in that year. The Commissioner disallowed the deduction, and the Board sustained his ruling.

Petitioner began to do business January, 1916. At that time it acquired from four brothers $100,000 in cash and approximately seven millions of dollars worth of oil leases, mining rights, and royalty interests...

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