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GREGORY v. HELVERING

No. 127.

293 U.S. 465 (1935)

GREGORY v. HELVERING, COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 7, 1935.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Hugh Satterlee, with whom Messrs. George W. Saam, Rollin Browne, and Charles A. Roberts were on the brief, for petitioner.

Solicitor General Biggs, with whom Assistant Attorney General Wideman and Messrs. Sewall Key and Norman D. Keller were on the brief, for respondent.

By leave of Court, briefs of amici curiae were filed by Messrs. Ellsworth C. Alvord and Edward H. McDermott, and by Messrs. Albert E. James, A. Calder Mackay, George M. Morris, Willis D. Nance, Charles B. Rugg, Whitney North Seymour, and Harry N. Wyatt, in support of petitioner's contentions.

MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioner in 1928 was the owner of all the stock of United Mortgage Corporation. That corporation held among its assets 1,000 shares of the Monitor Securities Corporation. For the sole purpose of procuring a transfer of these shares to herself in order to sell them for her individual profit, and, at the same time, diminish the amount of income tax which would result...

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