FOX RIVER PAPER CORPORATION v. UNITED STATES

No. 9267.

165 F.2d 639 (1948)

FOX RIVER PAPER CORPORATION v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

January 23, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leo J. Federer and Edmund B. Shea, both of Milwaukee, Wis., for appellant.

Timothy T. Cronin, U. S. Atty., and E. J. Koelzer, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Milwaukee, Wis., Theron L. Caudle, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Helen Goodner, Helen R. Carloss, Robert N. Anderson, and Fred E. Youngman, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before SPARKS, KERNER, and MINTON, Circuit Judges.


MINTON, Circuit Judge.

In 1938 the plaintiff-appellant, Fox River Paper Corporation, hereafter referred to as the taxpayer, purchased a paper mill from the Fox River Paper Company, hereafter referred to as the old company, for $1,250,000 in cash and all of the taxpayer's authorized preferred stock, consisting of 5,000 shares of a par value of $100 each. In its Federal income tax returns for 1939 and 1940 the taxpayer claimed depreciation on a valuation of $1,750,000...

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