Legal Opinion

Louisiana Western Lumber Co. v. Commissioner

United States Tax Court

Decided July 19, 1954No. Docket Nos. 38643, 48798Published

Held, on the facts, that the lots sold were held primarily for sale to customers in the ordinary course of a business and that the resulting gain is taxable as ordinary income.

1Opinion of the Court

Louisiana Western Lumber Company, Inc., Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent

Louisiana Western Lumber Co. v. Commissioner

Docket Nos. 38643, 48798

United States Tax Court

22 T.C. 954; 1954 U.S. Tax Ct. LEXIS 136;

July 19, 1954, Filed July 19, 1954, Filed

Decisions will be entered for the respondent.

Held, on the facts, that the lots sold were held primarily for sale to customers in the ordinary course of a business and that the resulting gain is taxable as ordinary income.

A. Leon Hebert, Jr., Esq., for the petitioner.

Jackson L. Bailey, Esq., for the respondent.

Johnson, Judge.

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2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Thrift v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1950
  2. Dunlap, Acting Collector of Internal Revenue v. Oldham Lumber CoCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1950
  3. Ehrman v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1941
  4. Boomhower v. United StatesDistrict Court, N.D. Iowa · 1947
  5. Goldberg v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1954

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