HARTFORD-EMPIRE CO. v. COM'R OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 200.

137 F.2d 540 (1943)

HARTFORD-EMPIRE CO. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

July 8, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edgar J. Goodrich and Walter J. Brobyn, both of Washington, D. C. (Guggenheimer, Untermyer & Goodrich, of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for petitioner.

Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Sewall Key, Samuel H. Levy, and Joseph M. Jones, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., for respondent.

Before L. HAND, AUGUSTUS N. HAND, and CHASE, Circuit Judges.


L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The Tax Court held that for the years 1932, 1933 and 1934, the taxpayer must use as a "basis" for the depreciation of certain patents which it owned, their cost to other corporations from which the taxpayer had acquired them; the taxpayer insisted that the proper "basis" was its own cost at the time of acquisition. The issues on which the question turns are two: (1) whether the Commissioner was estopped as to the "basis" by certain earlier...

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