UNITED STATES v. W. R. BONSAL COMPANY

No. 7992.

279 F.2d 465 (1960)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. W. R. BONSAL COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 31, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Kovner, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Howard A. Heffron, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson and Harry Baum, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., J. M. Baley, Jr., U. S. Atty., Asheville, N. C., and John E. McDonald, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Charlotte, N. C., on brief), for appellant.

H. P. Taylor, Jr., Wadesboro, N. C. (Taylor, Kitchin & Taylor, Wadesboro, N. C., on brief) for appellee.

Before SOPER, HAYNSWORTH and BOREMAN, Circuit Judges.


HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.

The question is whether the tapayer's product is quartzite, for which there is a depletion allowance of 15% for income tax purposes, or sand and gravel, for which the depletion rate is 5%. In an action for refund of income taxes for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1951, the District Court found that the material was quartzite and that the taxpayer was entitled to depletion at the rate of 15%.

In Anson County, North Carolina,...

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