COPPERHEAD COAL COMPANY v. C. I. R.

No. 13702.

272 F.2d 45 (1959)

COPPERHEAD COAL COMPANY, Inc., Petitioner, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

December 4, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Kennedy Lynch of Fink, Lynch & Matia, Cleveland, Ohio, for petitioner.

Helen A. Buckley, Washington, D. C. (Charles K. Rice, Lee A. Jackson and A. F. Prescott, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for respondent.

Before McALLISTER, Chief Judge, and MILLER and WEICK, Circuit Judges.


McALLISTER, Chief Judge.

This is a petition for review of a decision of the Tax Court finding that the basis of petitioner's depreciable assets was $650,000.00, instead of $1,000,000.00, which petitioner contended it had paid for the tangible assets in question.

The government claimed, and the Tax Court found, that although, in the contract of purchase of the assets, the cost was set forth as $1,000,000.00, the actual value of the tangible assets was $650...

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