United States v. Cook

VOGEL, Circuit Judge.

These cases, consolidated for the purposes of trial, concern the proper tax treatment to be accorded income resulting from the sale by taxpayers of mink pelts derived from minks culled from their breeding herd. No issues of fact are presented. It is conceded that the business of the taxpayers during the years in question consisted of raising minks for the purpose of selling mink pelts; that this business required the development and maintenance of a breeding herd; that in order to obtain and maintain improved mink strains it was necessary to cull out of the herd minks…