MANSFIELD JOURNAL CO. v. C. I. R.

No. 13833.

274 F.2d 284 (1960)

MANSFIELD JOURNAL CO., Petitioner, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

February 5, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris Berick of Halle, Haber, Berick & McNulty, Cleveland, Ohio (Francis E. Kane and Morris Berick, Cleveland, Ohio, on the brief), for petitioner.

Joseph Kovner, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Charles K. Rice, Lee A. Jackson, I. Henry Kutz and Joseph Kovner, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for respondent.

Before SIMONS, MARTIN and CECIL, Circuit Judges.


MARTIN, Circuit Judge.

This is a petition for review of a decision of the Tax Court of the United States finding deficiencies in the petitioner's income tax for the taxable years 1951 and 1952 in amounts of $41,041.72 and $13,930.69, respectively. The question presented is whether considerations paid for the assignments of the right to purchase newsprint under a long-term contract are taxable as capital gains, or as ordinary income.

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