STANDARD OIL CO. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 7816.

129 F.2d 363 (1942)

STANDARD OIL CO. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 5, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles D. Hamel and Lee I. Park, both of Washington, D. C., and B. F. Jones, of Chicago, Ill., for petitioner.

J. P. Wenchel, and Charles E. Lowery, both of Washington, D. C., Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and J. Louis Monarch, Sewall Key, and Samuel H. Levy, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for respondent.

Before EVANS, SPARKS, and MAJOR, Circuit Judges.


EVANS, Circuit Judge.

This Federal income tax case is an outgrowth of the "Teapot Dome" leases and litigation, and involves two comparatively narrow issues: (1) The deductibility for the tax year 1930, of a loss, business expense, or bad debt item, allegedly sustained by petitioner, in the sum of $2,906,484.32, which was the amount of a consent judgment entered in a tort suit against petitioner's wholly-owned subsidiary....

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