ADLER v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 7699.

77 F.2d 733 (1935)

ADLER v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE (two cases).

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 22, 1935.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Townsend, of Washington, D. C., for petitioners.

Frank J. Wideman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Sewall Key and Arnold Raum, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and Robert H. Jackson, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue, and John H. Pigg, Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, both of Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Before BRYAN, FOSTER, and HUTCHESON, Circuit Judges.


BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

In January, 1927, petitioners Leopold Adler and his wife, principal stockholders of I. Epstein & Bro. Co., received $50,000 and $47,500, respectively, as their shares of a distribution made upon the redemption of a part of the preferred stock of that company, which was issued in 1924 as a 100 per cent. dividend upon common stock and made redeemable after two years. In their income tax returns for 1927 they accounted for the amounts so received...

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