# Gulf, Mobile & N. R.R. v. Commissioner > United States Board of Tax Appeals · February 20, 1931 · 22 B.T.A. 233 URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4491687 ## Case - **Full name:** GULF, MOBILE & NORTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE - **Court:** United States Board of Tax Appeals - **Decided:** February 20, 1931 - **Citations:** 22 B.T.A. 233; 1931 BTA LEXIS 2144 - **Precedential status:** Published - **Opinion:** Dissent by Sternhagen - **Judges:** Phillips, Sternhagen, Arundell, Trammell, Agree - **Cited by:** 14 later opinions in the Frix Law Library ## Citator (automated) - No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases. - Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4491687 ## Opinion text Sternhagen, dissenting in part: The few facts available in respect of the back pay received in 1920 for mail transportation performed in 1916 and 1917 do not, in my opinion, justify the decision that it was not income in 1920. Furthermore, it seems to me more practi *264 cal to treat controverted transportation charges which are in doubt during a protracted investigation by the Interstate Commerce Commission as income when received at the close of the controversy rather than to readjust the accounts of the year of service, and, since there is no legal obstacle to such a practical rule, I should adopt it rather than the cumbersome one now approved. The rule suggested in the dictum of the Western Maryland case will keep Government revenues and railroad taxes and income in a long state of uncertainty; and, in view of the statute of limitations, will probably be unfair and unsatisfactory to both. Arundell and Murdock agree with this dissent. --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4491687. Public record. Not legal advice.