HYLAND v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 251, Docket 21276.

175 F.2d 422 (1949)

HYLAND v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided June 29, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Finnell, New York City (Frank T. Kleiger and S. Stuart Kleiger, New York City, of counsel), for petitioner.

Theron Lamar Caudle, Assistant Attorney General, Ellis N. Slack, Helen Goodner and Edward J. P. Zimmerman, Special Assistants to Attorney General, for respondent.

Before L. HAND, Chief Judge, and SWAN and FRANK, Circuit Judges.


SWAN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves the petitioner's income tax for the year 1943. The issue is whether compensation paid him in 1943 for services rendered to a corporation in 1942 should be taxed in the year of actual receipt, as the Tax Court held, or in the earlier year under the doctrine of "constructive receipt," as the petitioner contends.

The facts were stipulated. During the years 1942 and 1943 Mr. Hyland, the taxpayer, owned 85.71% of the stock...

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