COM'R OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. OSWEGO FALLS CORP.

No. 273.

137 F.2d 173 (1943)

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. OSWEGO FALLS CORPORATION.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

June 29, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key, J. Louis Monarch, and Carlton Fox, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., for petitioner.

A. H. Cowie and Gerald H. Henley, both of Syracuse, N. Y., for respondent.

Before L. HAND, AUGUSTUS N. HAND, and FRANK, Circuit Judges.


FRANK, Circuit Judge.

The Commissioner contends that the taxpayer, without violation of the mortgage indenture, could have paid dividends in its unsecured notes (or other unsecured obligations) maturing more than "a year after their date." There may perhaps be some doubt whether such obligations, if maturing before the mortgage bonds, would have violated the provisions of the indenture; but that is a question we need not consider. For, if dividends had been paid in...

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