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Cecil C. LAWSON Et Al., Petitioners,
v.
COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent
9491_1.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Aug 9, 1965.
Published opinion
350 F.2d 396
John Y. Merrell, Washington, D. C., for petitioners., Melva M. Graney, Atty., Dept. of Justice (Louis F. Oberdorfer, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Lee A. Jackson and Michael Mulroney, Attys., Dept. of Justice, on brief), for respondent.
Bryan, Haynsworth, Per Curiam, Sobeloff.
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PER CURIAM:

The taxpayers are extractors of coal, operating under contracts with a lessee of extensive coal deposits. Their relationship to the lessee and the coal in place is substantially the same as that of the contractors in the case of Paragon Jewel Coal Company, Inc. v. Commissioner, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 28, 1965, 85 S.Ct. 1207. There, the Supreme Court held that, under similar circumstances, the depletable interest was owned entirely by the lessee, and that the contractors engaged in the extraction of the coal were not entitled to a depletion deduction. That case governs the result here.

The taxpayers suggest some possible factual distinctions between the situation here and that presented in Paragon Jewel, but, in light of the Tax Court’s findings of fact, we find the suggested distinctions insubstantial. Affirmance of the Tax Court’s conclusion is compelled by the Supreme Court’s holding in Paragon Jewel.

Affirmed.