MURPHY CORPORATION v. UNITED STATES

No. E.D. 989.

230 F.Supp. 583 (1964)

MURPHY CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court W. D. Arkansas, El Dorado Division.

April 1, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Crumpler & O'Connor, El Dorado, Ark., Jackson, Walker, Winstead, Cantwell & Miller, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiff.

Charles M. Conway, U. S. Atty., West. Dist. Ark., Fort Smith, Ark., Robert L. Waters, Atty., Tax Division, Dept. of Justice, Fort Worth, Tex., for defendant.


HENLEY, District Judge.

This is a suit brought by plaintiff, Murphy Corporation, against the Government to secure a refund of a portion of its 1953 federal income tax allegedly unlawfully and erroneously exacted. The problem presented is the proper treatment for tax purposes of an aliquot part of a cash "bonus" which plaintiff paid to the Government in 1951 for an interest in an oil and gas lease on certain federally owned lands in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, from...

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