CORBETT v. BURNET

No. 5122.

50 F.2d 492 (1931)

CORBETT v. BURNET, Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

Court of Appeals of District of Columbia.

Decided May 4, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Hughes and William Cogger, both of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

G. A. Youngquist, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key, Hayner N. Larson, and C. M. Charest, all of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and ROBB, VAN ORSDEL, HITZ, and GRONER, Associate Justices.


GRONER, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Board of Tax Appeals approving in part a deficiency tax imposed by the Commissioner on appellant for the year 1921.

Appellant, who resides in Florida, filed his income tax return for the year 1921 in which he showed a profit of $54,349.40 derived from the sale of 200 shares of the stock of Melville-Corbett Company. In 1926, the Commissioner increased the return in the sum of $13,859.10 because...

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