CULBERTSON v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 12232.

168 F.2d 979 (1948)

CULBERTSON et al. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 30, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin L. Bird, of Fort Worth, Tex., for petitioners.

Homer R. Miller, Robert N. Anderson and Harry Baum, Special Assts. to the Atty. Gen., Theron L. Caudle, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Charles Oliphant, Chief Counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue, and John W. Smith, Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, all of Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Before HUTCHESON, McCORD, and WALLER, Circuit Judges.


WALLER, Circuit Judge.

For nearly a quarter of a century William O. Culbertson and R. S. Coon were partners in the cattle-raising business near Dalhart, Texas. Coon raised many cattle but had no children. Culbertson raised both. He had four sons, a daughter, and a one-half interest in approximately fourteen hundred head of cattle at the time of the transaction around which this case centers. Coon furnished the finances; Culbertson looked after the cattle. About the...

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