MORSMAN v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 10621.

90 F.2d 18 (1937)

MORSMAN v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 21, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edgar M. Morsman, Jr., of Omaha, Neb. (Edgar M. Morsman, III, of Omaha, Neb., on the brief), for petitioner.

Joseph M. Jones, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Robert H. Jackson, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., on the brief), for respondent.

Before GARDNER, WOODROUGH, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.


THOMAS, Circuit Judge.

This is a petition to review a decision of the Board of Tax Appeals which sustained the action of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue determining a deficiency in petitioner's income tax for 1929 in the amount of $5,440.70.

The question for decision is whether the profit realized from the sale of certain securities was taxable to the petitioner individually or to an alleged trust entity created by him.

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