UNITED STATES v. SOUTH GEORGIA RY. CO.

No. 9180.

107 F.2d 3 (1939)

UNITED STATES v. SOUTH GEORGIA RY. CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 10, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Leonard Lyons and Sewall Key, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and T. Hoyt Davis, U. S. Atty., and T. Reese Watkins, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Macon, Ga., for the United States.

Russell Snow, of Cocoa, Fla., and Geo. R. Lilly, of Quitman, Ga., for appellee.

Before SIBLEY, HUTCHESON, and McCORD, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Brought to recover sums paid as income taxes for the calendar years, 1933-34, the claim of the suit was that payments made in those years, as dividends, to persons holding preferred stock certificates were in fact, payments of interest, and deductible as such. The District Judge agreeing with the claim, gave the tax payer judgment. The United States, here to complain of the judgment, insists; that paid as dividends, they were in fact and...

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