WESTOVER v. SMITH

No. 12019.

173 F.2d 90 (1949)

WESTOVER et al. v. SMITH.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

February 21, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theron Lamar Caudle, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ellis N. Slack, Robert N. Anderson, Homer R. Miller and S. Walter Shine, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and James M. Carter, U. S. Atty., George M. Bryant and Edward H. Mitchell, Asst. U. S. Attys., all of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellants.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Bert A. Lewis, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Before HEALY, BONE and ORR, Circuit Judges.


ORR, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the district court holding that income received by Smith, the taxpayer, in 1941 and 1943 was taxable as capital gain rather than as ordinary income, and ordering a refund to the taxpayer of certain taxes erroneously collected.

The taxpayer was owner of all the stock of Quickwork Company, a corporation engaged in the manufacture and sale of machine tools. In 1940 Quickwork Company sold all of its assets...

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