WARREN v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 73-55, 272-55.

171 F.Supp. 846 (1959)

William K. WARREN and Natalie O. Warren v. UNITED STATES. Howard E. and Mabel H. FELT et al. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

April 8, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. McClure and John E. McClure, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs. McClure & McClure, Washington, D. C., Cecil L. Smith and Kilgore & Kilgore, Dallas, Tex., were on the briefs.

C. Moxley Featherston, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. Charles K. Rice, for defendant. James P. Garland and Lyle M. Turner, Washington, D. C., were on the brief.


MADDEN, Judge.

The plaintiffs sue for the refund of a part of the income taxes paid by them for the years 1949 through 1952. They paid their taxes for these years on the basis that the income in question was ordinary income. Their claim in these suits is that the income was long-term capital gain, taxable at a lower rate.

In 1938 the Corpus Christi Corporation was organized under Texas law to acquire and develop oil and gas properties in some 8,782 acres of...

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