HOUGHTON v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 367.

71 F.2d 656 (1934)

HOUGHTON et al. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, and six other cases.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

June 18, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Angulo, Russell L. Bradford, and George H. Craven, all of New York City, William Flannery, of Elmira, N. Y., Wm. R. Green, Jr., of New York City, and Norman E. Webster, for petitioners.

Frank J. Wideman, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and John MacC. Hudson, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for respondent.

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


L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This appeal comes up upon seven petitions of taxpayers who challenge the correctness of assessments levied against them for alleged gains arising from the sales of preferred shares of stock in the year 1923. The facts were as follows: For long before March 1, 1913, the petitioners or their testators had owned shares of stock in an old manufacturing company situated in Corning, New York, and known as the Corning Glass Works. On March 1, 1913...

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