BROWN v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 10948.

143 F.2d 468 (1944)

BROWN v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 23, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. L. Lockett, of Houston, Tex., for petitioner.

Howard P. Locke, Sewall Key, and A. F. Prescott, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and J. P. Wenchel, Chief Counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue, and Bernard D. Daniels, Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, both of Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Before SIBLEY, and LEE, Circuit Judges.


LEE, Circuit Judge.

This case involves deficiencies in income tax found by the Tax Court to be due by petitioner for the calendar years 1937, 1938, and 1939, respectively. The sole question is whether the net profit to the taxpayer from the sale of lots in the taxable years was capital gain or ordinary income. The applicable statutes and regulations are set forth below.1

The taxpayer and her husband owned some 500 acres of unimproved...

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