SEWELL v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 11373.

151 F.2d 765 (1945)

SEWELL v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE (two cases).

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 9, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. A. Sutherland, of Atlanta, Ga., and Wilton H. Wallace and E. F. Colladay, both of Washington, D. C., for petitioners.

John F. Costelloe, Sewall Key, and Helen R. Carloss, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and J. P. Wenchel, Chief Counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue, and John T. Rogers, Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, both of Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Before SIBLEY, McCORD, and WALLER, Circuit Judges.


WALLER, Circuit Judge.

The question involved here is one of intent, that is, whether or not the petitioners intended to make a completed gift inter vivos of the corporate stock to their respective wives, or whether the stock was placed in their wives' names only for tax purposes with the alleged donors retaining the same dominion and control as if there had been no transfer. There are ample facts in the record to justify the factual finding by the Tax Court that the...

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