YANKEY v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

Nos. 3164-3168.

151 F.2d 650 (1945)

YANKEY et al. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE. BRADFORD'S ESTATE v. SAME. HELLING v. SAME (two cases). BRADFORD v. SAME.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

October 27, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chas. G. Yankey, Harvey C. Osborne, J. G. Sears, Jr., and Verne M. Laing, all of Wichita, Kan., for petitioners.

Rigmor O. Carlsen, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and Robert N. Anderson, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., on the brief), for respondent.

Before PHILLIPS, BRATTON, and MURRAH, Circuit Judges.


BRATTON, Circuit Judge.

The question presented for determination is whether the gain derived by petitioners respectively in connection with the surrender of certain shares of preferred stock was taxable under section 115(c) and (i) of the Revenue Act of 1936, 49 Stat. 1648, 26 U.S.C.A. Int.Rev.Acts, pages 868, 871, on the basis of one hundred per cent of the gain realized, or under section 117 (a) on the basis of a fixed proportion of the gain.

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