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F.H.E. OIL CO. v. HELVERING

No. 26.

308 U.S. 104 (1939)

F.H.E. OIL CO. v. HELVERING, COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 6, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Harry C. Weeks for petitioner.

Mr. Arnold Raum, with whom Solicitor General Jackson, Assistant Attorney General Clark, and Messrs. Sewall Key and Ellis N. Slack were on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case presents the same issue as is involved in Helvering v. Wilshire Oil Co., ante, p. 90, except that it arises under the Revenue Act of 1932 (47 Stat. 169). In computing its taxable net income under that Act, petitioner deducted certain development expenditures as it had done since its organization in 1925. But it refused to take these same deductions in computing net income for the purpose...

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