Bass v. Group No. 1 Oil Corp.

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellee brought suit and recovered judgment against appellant, as collector of internal revenue, for the amount of federal income taxes paid under protest. Those taxes were assessed and collected upon net income derived from the sale of oil and gas produced from lands which appellee held under lease from the state of Texas. The judgment was based on the theory that appellee was an instrumentality of the state, and as such was exempt as to the income involved from federal taxation. (D. C.) 38 F.(2d) 680.

The leased lands from which the income was derived are parts of the…