Scofield v. Corpus Christi Golf & Country Club

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The suit was for tax refund. The claim was that plaintiff, within Section 101, Revenue Act of 1936, 26 U.S.C.A. Int.Rev.Code § 101, was a Club “organized and operated exclusively for pleasure, recreation, and other nonprofitable purposes, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder.” The defense was that, in the year in question, the Club executed an oil lease upon its club property, for a consideration of a cash bonus, reserved oil payments and a royalty and in that year received, $11,554.46, $7,-500 as bonus, and $4,004.44…