CRANSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 10644.

146 F.2d 871 (1945)

CRANSON v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 26, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon DeFremery and Morrison, Hohfeld, Foerster, Shuman & Clark, all of San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key, Helen R. Carloss, Courtnay C. Hamilton, and Helen Goodner, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and Frank J. Hennessy, U. S. Atty., and Esther B. Phillips, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before GARRECHT, DENMAN, and HEALY, Circuit Judges.


GARRECHT, Circuit Judge.

The question here is whether the distribution of $450 to the taxpayer from the Honolulu Oil Corporation, Ltd., hereinafter referred to as Honolulu constituted a taxable dividend. The taxpayer is suing to recover income taxes paid on this distribution in 1936.

The facts are stipulated and were adopted by the court below as its findings of facts.

On August 31, 1936, Honolulu liquidated three wholly owned subsidiaries and took...

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