UNITED STATES v. GALVESTON-HOUSTON ELECTRIC CO.

No. 3143.

84 F.2d 516 (1936)

UNITED STATES v. GALVESTON-HOUSTON ELECTRIC CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

June 25, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene O'Dunne, Jr., Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, of Washington, D. C. (Robert H. Jackson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Sewall Key and J. Louis Monarch, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., and Herman Oliphant, Gen. Counsel, Department of Treasury, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for the United States.

Burton E. Eames, of Boston, Mass. (George M. Naylor, Jr., of Boston, Mass., Claude M. Houchins, of Washington, D. C., and Tyler, Eames, Wright & Reynolds, of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for appellee.

Before BINGHAM and WILSON, Circuit Judges, and MORRIS, District Judge.


WILSON, Circuit Judge.

The appellee petitioned for reorganization under section 77B of the Bankruptcy Act, 11 U.S.C.A. § 207. The United States presented a claim for income taxes for the year 1931, amounting with interest to approximately $268,000.

The appellee is a holding company and its affiliated subsidiaries in 1931 were the Galveston Electric Company, hereinafter referred to as the Galveston Company, which...

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