STALEY v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 10606.

136 F.2d 368 (1943)

STALEY v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 17, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles C. Le Forgee, of Decatur, Ill., for petitioner.

Joseph M. Jones, Sewall Key, and J. Louis Monarch, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and J. P. Wenchel, Chief Counsel, and Bernard D. Daniels, Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, both of Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Before HUTCHESON, HOLMES, and WALLER, Circuit Judges.


HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

This petition brings for review a decision of the Board of Tax Appeals sustaining a deficiency assessment made with respect to the 1935 fiduciary income tax return of the executor of the A. E. Staley estate. The question for decision is whether the sum of $150,000, which was paid to Staley during the tax year from the income of certain trust estates created by him, was income or was a return of capital.

In 1934 Staley, who was chairman...

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