COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. SANSOME

No. 354.

60 F.2d 931 (1932)

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. SANSOME.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

July 26, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. A. Youngquist, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and Hayner N. Larson, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen. (C. M. Charest, Gen. Counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue, and Willis R. Lansford, Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, both of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for appellant.

R. M. O'Hara, of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before L. HAND, AUGUSTUS N. HAND, and CHASE, Circuit Judges.


L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

Sansome, the taxpayer, on January 1, 1921, bought some shares of stock, having $100 par value, in a New Jersey company, which on April 1, 1921, sold out all its assets to another company of the same state. The new company assumed all existing liabilities, and issued its shares to the shareholders of the old, without change in the proportion of their holdings, though the number of new shares was increased five times, and they were without par...

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