Case ID: bta_9/html/0427-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Siefkin :", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Big Western Oil & Gas Co., Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent.
    Docket No. 7150.
    Promulgated November 29, 1927.
    
      H. J. Wightman, Esq., for the petitioner.
    
      Granville JS. Borden, Esq., for the respondent.
   OPINION.

Siefkin :

The evidence is clear that the sale of the leases in question was instituted and completed in the year 1918 and the entire consideration paid to petitioner or its creditors in that year. The respondent erred in including the profit from the sale in 1919.

As to depletion, the evidence is too slight to justify us in disturbing the allowances of the respondent, and we must approve his determination in that respect.

Judgment will be entered wpon 15 days’ notice, under Rule 50.

Considered by Mourns and Murdock.