HELVERING v. GOWRAN

No. 27.

302 U.S. 238 (1937)

HELVERING, COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, v. GOWRAN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 6, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Assistant Attorney General Jackson argued the cause, and Solicitor General Reed, Assistant Attorney General Morris, and Messrs. Sewall Key and Morton K. Rothschild were on the brief, for petitioner.

Messrs. John C. Altman and A.L. Nash for respondent.

By leave of Court, Mr. Roger S. Baldwin filed a brief as amicus curiae, in opposition to the petition for a writ of certiorari.


MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The questions for decision concern the taxation as income of a dividend in preferred stock and the proceeds received on its sale.

On June 29, 1929, the Hamilton Manufacturing Company, a Wisconsin corporation, had outstanding preferred stock of the par value of $100 a share and common stock without par value. On that day the directors declared from the surplus earnings a dividend of $14 a share on the...

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