Crabb v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

Three married sisters and their brother, all residents of Texas, had deficiencies assessed on their income tax returns for the year 1936. Their petitions for redeter-mination by the Board of Tax Appeals were consolidated and by stipulation a consolidated petition for review is before us. The Commissioner “restored to income” in 1936 the amount deducted in 1934 as percentage depletion allowances from bonuses received for two oil and gas leases, because in 1936 both leases were surrendered, one having produced nothing and the other a trifling amount of which the taxpayers…