UNITED STATES v. SPALDING

No. 9602.

115 F.2d 54 (1940)

UNITED STATES v. SPALDING.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 21, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman D. Keller, J. Louis Monarch, William L. Cary, and Sewall Key, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., W. B. Waldo, Atty., Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., and Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Lawrence S. Camp, U. S. Atty., and Harvey H. Tisinger, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Atlanta, Ga., for appellant.

Joseph B. Brennan, of Atlanta, Ga., for appellee.

Before FOSTER, SIBLEY, and HUTCHESON, Circuit Judges.


SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

Hughes Spalding was denied a claim of loss as realized in 1933 by a sale of land to his father accompanied by an option to repurchase. He paid the additional income taxes assessed and sued in the District Court to recover them as illegally collected. The answer denied that the sale was "a genuine and legal sale in contemplation of the federal income tax laws" and averred that "it resulted in no loss whatsoever within the meaning of the applicable...

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