Legal Opinion

Lucas v. Ox Fibre Brush Co.

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided April 14, 1930No. 250PublishedCited by 255 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hughes

The Ox Fibre Brush Company appealed to the Board of Tax Appeals from the determination by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue of a deficiency in the income tax of the corporation for the year 1920. The Board of Tax Appeals sustained the ruling of the Commissioner (8 B. T. A. 422), and this decision was-reversed by the Circuit Court of Appeals. 32 F. (2d) 42.

The question relates to extra compensation granted by the directors of the corporation in the year 1920 to the president and treasurer, of $24,000 each. In the income tax return for that year, the corporation deducted these items from the…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. United States v. AndersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
  2. Lucas v. American Code Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1930
  3. American National Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1927

3Cited by255 opinions

  1. Welch v. HelveringSupreme Court of the United States · 1933
  2. Brown v. HelveringSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
  3. Security Flour Mills Co. v. CommissionerSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
  4. Ben Perlmutter and Bernice Perlmutter v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the Perlmutters, Inc. v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1967
  5. Elliotts, Inc. v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1983

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