OLIVER IRON MINING CO. v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 12886.

13 T.C. 416 (1949)

OLIVER IRON MINING COMPANY, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated September 28, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. W. Pavenstedt, Esq., and A. C. Newlin, Esq., for the petitioner.

Scott A. Dahlquist, Esq., for the respondent.


OPINION.

MURDOCK, Judge:

The Commissioner determined deficiencies of $163,162.08 and $7,074.71 in income tax for 1939 and 1940. The only issue for decision is whether the petitioner's adjusted basis for loss on the Pettit lease, terminated in 1939, included $1,675,050.03 representing unrecovered cost paid under the Chemung contract of 1914. The facts have been stipulated.

The petitioner filed its returns for the taxable years with the collector...

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