GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION v. UNITED STATES

No. 17400.

264 F.2d 161 (1959)

GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

February 27, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Baxter Jones, Jr., Mac Asbill, Atlanta, Ga., J. J. Willingham, James M. Hull, Augusta, Ga., Hull, Willingham, Towill & Norman, Augusta, Ga., Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Atlanta, Ga., of counsel for appellant.

C. Guy Tadlock, Grant W. Wiprud, Joseph F. Goetten, Lee A. Jackson, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Charles K. Rice, Asst. Atty. Gen., William C. Calhoun, U. S. Atty., Augusta, Ga., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and RIVES and JONES, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

This is another of the many cases in which, hewing to the line and letting the chips fall where they may, the court, deciding now for the government and now for the taxpayer, according to the facts of the particular case, is called upon to apply the controlling principle of what is usually referred to as the Kimbell-Diamond doctrine.1 This succinctly stated is that when...

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