QUINTANA PETROLEUM CO. v. COMMISSIONER OF INT. REV.

No. 10898.

143 F.2d 588 (1944)

QUINTANA PETROLEUM CO. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 27, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. K. Eckert, of Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

Joseph S. Platt, Sewall Key, and Helen R. Carloss, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

Before SIBLEY, HUTCHESON, and LEE, Circuit Judges.


LEE, Circuit Judge.

The petition for review involves income taxes for the year 1937 and presents the following questions:

1. Was the petitioner, who, as assignee of a producing oil and gas lease, was required to develop and operate the lease and to account to the lessee-assignor for one-fourth of the net profits from said lease, entitled to deduct such payments in computing its taxable net income, either as business expenses or as rentals or royalties?

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