FORRESTER v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 2634.

4 T.C. 907 (1945)

D. BRUCE FORRESTER, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated March 2, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. McEvers, Esq., and John W. Reed, Esq., for the petitioner.

Gene W. Reardon, Esq., for the respondent.


This proceeding involves a deficiency of $35,445.15 in income tax for 1938. The issues are whether the Commissioner erred:

1. In determining that petitioner's basis for 150 shares of stock of the Forrester Box Co., acquired in an exchange in 1922, was $49,554.02, the cost of stock of the Forrester-Nace Box Co. given up in the exchange.

2. In failing to determine that 150 other shares of stock of the Forrester Box Co., acquired in October 1926, had a cost basis...

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