UNITED STATES v. ST. JOE PAPER COMPANY

No. 18425.

284 F.2d 430 (1960)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. ST. JOE PAPER COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 12, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David O. Walters, Lee A. Jackson and Meyer Rothwacks, Attys., Charles K. Rice, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., John L. Briggs, Asst. U. S. Atty., Jacksonville, Fla., E. Coleman Madsen, U. S. Atty., Miami, Fla., for appellant.

John S. Nolan, Charles T. Akre, Washington, D. C., Robert N. Miller, Miller & Chevalier, Washington, D. C., of counsel, for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and RIVES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Chief Judge.

The United States appeals from a judgment of the District Court allowing as a deduction from income tax attorneys' fees paid by appellee in its long struggle over the equity ownership of the Florida East Coast Railway Company. The basic facts upon which a correct determination of this question must depend are not in dispute. Nor are the legal principles which must apply. The appellant contends that the trial court drew the wrong conclusion from...

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