Legal Opinion

Palos Verdes Corp. v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided December 26, 1952No. 13116PublishedCited by 32 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.

In 1913 a syndicate purchased 16,004 acres of unimproved land commonly known as Rancho Palos Verdes. The property consists of the semi-arid hump of land or foothill lying westerly of San Pedro and Wilmington in Los Angeles County, California, about twenty-five miles south of the main business section of Los Angeles City. The hump slopes off rather gradually from around 1400 feet above sea level southerly and westerly to- high, bold bluffs at the sea’s edge, and northerly to the plain leveling off toward the center of Los Angeles City. The Rancho contains little level…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Ehrman v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1941
  2. Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. BoeingCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1939
  3. Harriss v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1944
  4. Merchants Nat'l Bank v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1950
  5. Guthrie v. JonesDistrict Court, W.D. Oklahoma · 1947

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3Cited by32 opinions

  1. Louis Greenspon v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, (Three Cases). Anna Greenspon v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1956
  2. Stockton Harbor Industrial Company v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1954
  3. Bradford v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1954
  4. Pool v. CommissionerCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1957
  5. Robert E. Austin and Marian H. Austin v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1959

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