DASCOMB v. McCUEN

Nos. 89, 90.

73 F.2d 417 (1934)

DASCOMB v. McCUEN, Collector of Internal Revenue. SAME v. KENNEDY, Former Collector of Internal Revenue.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

November 13, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. T. Fleming, of Houston, Tex. (Selden Leavell and R. C. Fulbright, both of Houston, Tex., of counsel), for appellant.

Frank J. Wideman, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Sewall Key, Norman D. Keller, and Frederick W. Dewart, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and Joseph A. McNamara, U. S. Atty., of Burlington, Vt., of counsel), for appellees.

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


SWAN, Circuit Judge.

The appellant was the president and largest shareholder of Vaughan Lumber Company, a common-law association or trust, herein referred to for convenience as the Trust. On February 15, 1920, he received from the Trust a dividend of some $270,000. This he reported in his income tax return for 1920, showing a part thereof as taxable income, and the balance as a distribution of capital and so nontaxable. His income taxes for 1920 were assessed in accordance...

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