UNITED STATES v. WHITE

No. 6974.

311 F.2d 399 (1962)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant. v. Paul WHITE and Anna Lee White, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

December 31, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Waters, Attorney, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Louis F. Oberdorfer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson, Melva M. Graney, Attorneys, Washington, D. C., Lawrence M. Henry, U. S. Atty., and Merle R. Knous, Asst. U. S. Atty., Denver, Colo., on the brief), for appellant.

Stanley L. Drexler, Denver, Colo. (Ellis J. Sobol, Denver, Colo., on the brief), for appellees.

Before PICKETT, BREITENSTEIN and HILL, Circuit Judges.


PICKETT, Circuit Judge.

This tax refund case presents the question of the appropriate treatment, for purposes of federal income taxation, of a $175,000 payment received upon a transfer of a mineral interest in Colorado lands. In their joint federal income tax return for 1956, the taxpayers, Paul White and Anna Lee White, reported the payment as income from the sale of a capital asset pursuant to Sections 1201 and 1202 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. A deficiency...

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