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LEAKE v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 9590.

140 F.2d 451 (1944)

LEAKE v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

February 7, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fyke Farmer, of Nashville, Tenn. (Fyke Farmer, James W. Allen, and Farmer, Denney & Leftwich, all of Nashville, Tenn., on the brief), for petitioner.

Muriel Paul, of Washington, D. C. (Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Sewall Key, A. F. Prescott, and Helen Goodner, all of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for respondent.

Before HAMILTON, MARTIN, and McALLISTER, Circuit Judges.

HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.

Prior to January 21, 1937, the date not shown in the record, petitioner acquired an option from the Wrigley Estate of Chicago, Illinois, to purchase from it at $2 per share, 103,194½ shares of the common capital stock of the Tennessee Products Corporation. On the above date, petitioner entered into a contract with Paul M. Davis of Nashville, Tennessee, and Gray-Shillinglaw & Company, a Tennessee corporation, engaged in the brokerage...

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