COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REV. v. PAN-AMERICAN L. INS. CO.

No. 9175.

111 F.2d 366 (1940)

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. PAN-AMERICAN LIFE INS. CO. PAN-AMERICAN LIFE INS. CO. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 20, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward H. Horton and Sewall Key, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and J. P. Wenchel, Chief Counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue, and John W. Smith, Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, both of Washington, D. C., for Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

Eugene J. McGivney, Edwin J. Prinz, and Solomon S. Goldman, all of New Orleans, La., for Pan-American Life Ins. Co.

John W. Townsend, of Washington, D. C., for amicus curiae.

Before SIBLEY, HUTCHESON, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.


HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

These two petitions for review were consolidated for purposes of the hearing, but the questions presented are distinct, and will be dealt with separately in this opinion.

In the first case, the question is whether reserves required by state law to be maintained by life insurance companies for the payment of incurred disability benefits are reserves required by law within the meaning of Section 203 (a) (2) of the Revenue Act of 1932,...

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