Opinion
No. 20542.
February 19, 1964.
Appeal from United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, William A. McRae, Jr., Judge.
James H. Walsh, Asst. U.S. Atty., Jacksonville, Fla., Louis F. Oberdorfer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson, Atty., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Edith House, Asst. U.S. Atty., Miami, Fla., Harry Baum, Timothy Dyk, Attys., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for appellant.
S.E. Simmons, St. Petersburg, Fla., for appellees.
The facts here presented are different only in detail from those in Commissioner v. Birch Ranch and Oil Co., 9th Cir. 1951, 192 F.2d 924, affirming Birch Ranch and Oil Co. v. Commissioner, 13 T.C. 930. The principles there stated are sound and require the affirmance of the district court.
Affirmed.