SNELL v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 8731.

97 F.2d 891 (1938)

SNELL v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 5, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geo. E. H. Goodner, of Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

John J. Pringle, Jr., Sewall Key, and J. Louis Monarch, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., James W. Morris, Asst. Atty. Gen., and J. P. Wenchel, Chief Counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue, and Leslie H. Rushbrook, Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, both of Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Before FOSTER, SIBLEY, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.


SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

This case concerns income taxes for the years 1924 to 1927 inclusive, the Board of Tax Appeals having denied the taxpayer the benefit of the capital net gains rates provided in the Revenue Acts of 1924 and 1926, 43 Stat. 253, 44 Stat. 9, even as to profits realized during the tax years on instalment sales made in the year 1923. The gains all arose from sales of land near St. Petersburg, Florida, which had been held by the taxpayer for more than...

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