FIRST CHROLD CORPORATION v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 6696.

97 F.2d 22 (1938)

FIRST CHROLD CORPORATION v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

May 26, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. McClure, of Washington, D. C. (Maude Ellen White and Miller & Chevalier, all of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for petitioner.

James W. Morris, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and Morton K. Rothschild, Special Assts. to Atty. Gen., for respondent.

Before BUFFINGTON and BIGGS, Circuit Judges, and DICKINSON, District Judge.


DICKINSON, District Judge.

This is an income and excess profits tax case. The taxpayer corporation bought of some of its stockholders shares of stock, paying therefor less than its par value. It later sold the stock at a higher price. Was the difference between the selling and purchase price taxable income? The taxpayer thought not and excluded this sum from its taxable income return. The Commissioner thought otherwise, and served the taxpayer with a deficiency notice...

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