CANAL-COMMERCIAL T. & S. BK. v. COMMISSIONER OF INT. REV.

No. 6562.

63 F.2d 619 (1933)

CANAL-COMMERCIAL TRUST & SAVINGS BANK v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 1, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin W. Dart, of New Orleans, La., for petitioner.

G.A. Youngquist, Asst. Atty. Gen., Sewall Key and Helen R. Carloss, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and C.M. Charest, Gen. Counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue, and J. Arthur Adams, Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, both of Washington, D.C., for respondent.

Before BRYAN, FOSTER, and SIBLEY, Circuit Judges.


SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

In this review of a redetermination by the Board of Tax Appeals of a deficiency for the year 1920 in income taxes, the controlling question is whether $1,000,000 paid by Canal-Commercial National Bank to Canal-Commercial Trust & Savings Bank ostensibly as a dividend was an ordinary dividend or an amount paid in liquidation under Revenue Act 1918, § 201 (40 Stat. 1059).

The facts are that the latter company, to be called the...

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