TURNEY'S ESTATE v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 9964.

126 F.2d 712 (1942)

TURNEY'S ESTATE et al. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 9, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. L. Rasberry and Thornton Hardie, both of El Paso, Tex., for petitioners.

O. W. Hammonds, Sewall Key, J. Louis Monarch, and Helen R. Carloss, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and J. P. Wenchel, Chief Counsel, Bureau Internal Revenue, and Ralph F. Staubly, Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, both of Washington, D. C., for respondents.

Before HUTCHESON, HOLMES, and McCORD, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

In 1936, the tax year in question, Turney, hopelessly insolvent, was indebted to Pacific National Agricultural Corporation, in the sum of $101,866.10, secured by mortgage on cattle, livestock and equipment, having a cost basis of $9,600 and a value certainly not exceeding the debt. On October 2nd of that year, by a carefully worked out arrangement with the mortgage creditor, he surrendered the security to it, and received in return, a cancellation...

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