TIMBERLAKE v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 5012.

132 F.2d 259 (1942)

TIMBERLAKE v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 8, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard E. Thigpen, of Charlotte, N. C., for petitioner.

William A. Clineburg, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen. (Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and Helen R. Carloss, Sp. Assts. Atty. Gen., on the brief), for respondent.

Before PARKER and SOPER, Circuit Judges and COLEMAN, District Judge.


SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This petition for a review of a decision of the Board of Tax Appeals raises the question whether J. E. Timberlake, the taxpayer, received taxable income in 1936, when he purchased from a closely held corporation, of which he was a stockholder, shares of stock in another corporation at less than their fair market value.

Thomas and Howard Company of Columbia, South Carolina, hereinafter called the Columbia Company, bought 775 shares of...

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