ATLANTIC CO. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 10228.

129 F.2d 87 (1942)

ATLANTIC CO. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 30, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pope F. Brock, of Atlanta, Ga., for petitioner.

Joseph M. Jones, J. Louis Monarch, and Sewall Key, Sp. Assts. to 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 respondent.

Before SIBLEY, HUTCHESON, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.


HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

By means of a written contract executed prior to May 1, 1936, petitioner secured a line of credit from the First National Bank of Atlanta. The question is whether that contract prohibited the payment of dividends within the taxable years 1936 and 1937 so as to entitle it to a credit against the surtax on undistributed profits as provided by Section 26(c) (1) of the Revenue Act of 1936, 26 U.S.C.A. Int.Rev.Acts, page 836.

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