C. I. R. v. CLAUDE C. WOOD COMPANY

No. 18224.

321 F.2d 207 (1963)

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Petitioner, v. CLAUDE C. WOOD COMPANY, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

July 30, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis F. Oberdorfer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson, Melva M. Graney, Michael Mulroney, and Carolyn Just, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

Robert H. Mullen, Lodi, Cal., for respondent.

William E. Coombs, Rialto, Cal., amicus curiae.

Before MADDEN, Judge of the Court of Claims, and JERTBERG and DUNIWAY, Circuit Judges.


JERTBERG, Circuit Judge.

Before us is a petition by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to review a decision of the Tax Court of the United States holding that the taxpayer is entitled to deduct, in his 1958 income tax return, a percentage depletion on rock, sand and gravel which he had removed from property which had previously been dredge-mined for gold by another party.

The following summary of facts is taken mainly from the petitioner's opening brief...

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