UNITED SALT CORPORATION v. C. I. R.

No. 21311.

339 F.2d 215 (1964)

UNITED SALT CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 7, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cornelius O. Ryan, Houston, Tex., Kelley, Ryan & Merrill, Houston, Tex., of counsel, for petitioner.

Michael A. Mulroney, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Louis F. Oberdorfer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Sheldon S. Cohen, Chief Counsel, I.R.S., Eugene F. Colella, Atty., I.R.S., John B. Jones, Jr., Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Melva M. Graney, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Before WISDOM and GEWIN, Circuit Judges, and HANNAY, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

The Tax Court, in a careful, comprehensive, and well documented opinion, held for the Commissioner: for percentage depletion purposes, the required constructive computation of the taxpayer's "gross income from mining", that is, its gross income from bulk salt (immediately after screening), should be made by multiplying the number of tons of all the salt sold by the average price of the salt sold in bulk form. The taxpayer's average sales price of the sales...

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