INVESTMENT CORPORATION OF PHILADELPHIA v. UNITED STATES

No. 1326.

43 F.Supp. 64 (1941)

INVESTMENT CORPORATION OF PHILADELPHIA v. UNITED STATES.

District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

December 17, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen and Nathan Silberstein, all of Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Thomas J. Curtin, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Gerald A. Gleeson, U. S. Atty., both of Philadelphia, Pa., and J. Leonard Lyons, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., for defendant.


KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

This is an action for the recovery of alleged overpayment of income tax. The taxable year is 1935. The tax was assessed upon a profit realized by the plaintiff upon 250 shares of its own stock which it bought in 1931 and sold in 1935.

From all the circumstances I find as a fact that the transactions consisted of ordinary purchases of shares of stock, which were held for a time as assets of the corporation and then sold as such...

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