BALTIMORE & OHIO R. CO. v. MAGRUDER

No. 5870.

174 F.2d 896 (1949)

BALTIMORE & OHIO R. CO. v. MAGRUDER, Collector of Internal Revenue.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 24, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Stanley and D. Heyward Hamilton, Jr., Baltimore, Md. (Hershey, Donaldson, Williams & Stanley, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellant.

Sumner M. Redstone, Special Assistant to the Attorney General (Theron Lamar Caudle, Assistant Attorney General; Ellis N. Slack, Lee A. Jackson and Virginia H. Adams, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, and Bernard J. Flynn, U. S. Attorney, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


SOPER, Circuit Judge.

The question on this appeal is whether the plaintiff taxpayer, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, is entitled to a refund of $190,396.27 in corporate income and excess profits taxes for the year 1936. It paid this sum when the Commissioner of Internal Revenue disallowed a deduction of $2,525,543.91 that the taxpayer had accrued on its books for that year as excise taxes under Section 4 of the Carriers' Taxing Act of 1935, 49 Stat. 974,...

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