COMMISSIONER OF INT. REV. v. SOUTHWEST EXPLORATION CO.

No. 13875.

220 F.2d 58 (1955)

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Petitioner, v. SOUTHWEST EXPLORATION COMPANY, a corporation, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

March 7, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Brian Holland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Hilbert P. Zarky, Ellis N. Slack, Cecilia H. Goetz, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., Charles W. Davis, Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

Melvin D. Wilson, Los Angeles, Cal., for respondent.

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, W. J. McFarland, Harry R. Harry R. Horrow, Sigvald Nielson, San Francisco, Cal., amici curiae.

Before STEPHENS and CHAMBERS, Circuit Judges, and HARRISON, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

In this appeal, the only question brought to us from the Tax Court is who is entitled to depletion for oil that is extracted from beneath the ocean. The Tax Court held that upland owners from whose lands the slant wells were drilled into the pool of oil, under the ocean, are not entitled to participate in the depletion for oil thus extracted. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue appeals asserting that the upland owners, comprising the Huntington Beach...

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