LUCIUS PITKIN, INC. v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 17513.

13 T.C. 547 (1949)

LUCIUS PITKIN, INC., PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated October 11, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard Belford, Esq., for the petitioner.

J. Richard Riggles, Esq., for the respondent.


This proceeding involves a deficiency of $1,543.94 in income tax and a deficiency of $2,327.52 in excess profits tax asserted against the petitioner for the year 1943. The only question to be determined is whether the petitioner sustained a loss from the distribution in kind of certain of its assets to one of its three stockholders in exchange for one-third of its outstanding common stock held by that stockholder.

FINDINGS OF FACT.

Lucius Pitkin, Inc., the...

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