SCHREIBER v. UNITED STATES

No. 16129.

382 F.2d 553 (1967)

Erwin A. SCHREIBER and Clara Schreiber, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

July 17, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis L. Meldman, Robert E. Meldman, Milwaukee, Wis., for appellants.

Mitchell Rogovin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tax Div., Donald A. Statland, Lee A. Jackson, Grant W. Wiprud, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellee, James B. Brennan, U. S. Atty., Franklyn M. Gimbel, Asst. U. S. Atty., of counsel.

Before HASTINGS, Chief Judge, and FAIRCHILD and CUMMINGS, Circuit Judges.


CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

Taxpayers instituted this action for a refund of income taxes for the years 1959 through 1963. The issue is whether income received by taxpayers from quarrying operations conducted on their property constituted depletable ordinary income under a mineral lease or capital gains from a sale of the minerals in place.

Taxpayers own an 87-acre farm near Menominee Falls, Wisconsin. During the taxable years in question, they used this property...

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