HORST v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 83.

107 F.2d 906 (1939)

HORST v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

November 13, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duer, Strong & Whitehead, of New York City (Orwill V. W. Hawkins and Harry H. Wiggins, both of New York City, of counsel), for petitioner.

Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and Morton K. Rothschild, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for respondent.

Before SWAN, CHASE, and PATTERSON, Circuit Judges.


PATTERSON, Circuit Judge.

The question is whether a taxpayer who detaches coupons from bonds owned by him and delivers them to another as a gift prior to the time when the coupons are payable is liable for income tax on the amounts later collected on the coupons by the transferee.

The petitioner owned a number of coupon bonds. The coupons represented the interest on the bonds and were payable to bearer. In 1934 he detached unmatured coupons of face value of...

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