ESTATE OF LEWIS v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 6901.

6 T.C. 455 (1946)

ESTATE OF JOHN B. LEWIS, HARRIET S. W. LEWIS, JOHN B. LEWIS, JR., ARTHUR H. W. LEWIS, TRUSTEES, PETITIONERS, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated March 14, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. Armstrong, Esq., for the petitioners.

A. J. McDowell, Esq., for the respondent.


An income tax deficiency of $22,347.28 for the calendar year 1941 has been asserted by respondent against the petitioners. Petitioners contest the deficiency to the extent of $22,089.53, certain minor adjustments made by respondent not being controverted. The question for decision is whether respondent erred in taxing a gain realized by the estate of John B. Lewis as an ordinary dividend under section 112 (c) (2) of the Internal Revenue Code, rather than as a distribution...

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