RENTON INV. CO. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REV.

No. 8008.

131 F.2d 330 (1942)

RENTON INV. CO. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided November 6, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Wallace Booth, of Pittsburgh, Pa. (W. A. Seifert, of Pittsburgh, Pa., on the brief), for petitioner.

Ellis N. Slack, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key, Helen R. Carloss, and Arthur A. Armstrong, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., on the brief), for respondent.

Before MARIS and JONES, Circuit Judges, and LEAHY, District Judge.


JONES, Circuit Judge.

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue assessed a deficiency in surtax and penalty against the petitioner for the year 1937 on the basis that it was a personal holding company. The Board of Tax Appeals sustained the assessment and the matter is now before us for review on the taxpayer's petition. The question here involved is whether the petitioner was a personal holding company within the contemplation of Secs. 352, 353 and 354 of the Act of 1936...

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