CLYDE C. PIERCE CORP. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REV.

No. 9845.

120 F.2d 206 (1941)

CLYDE C. PIERCE CORPORATION v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 17, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Giles J. Patterson and Lucien H. Boggs, both of Jacksonville, Fla., for petitioner.

Edward H. Hammond 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 C. R. Marshall, Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, both of Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Before FOSTER, HUTCHESON, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner is here leveling two complaints against the findings and order of the Board. One complaint is against the finding that monies paid it on account of interest coupons, past due when defaulted bonds of political subdivisions of the State of Florida were purchased by it, are to be treated as a return of capital, and not as a payment of interest on tax exempt securities. The other is that the taxpayer is not entitled to deduct interest...

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