UNITED STATES v. CALIFORNIA ELECTRIC POWER CO.

No. 12611.

187 F.2d 313 (1951)

UNITED STATES v. CALIFORNIA ELECTRIC POWER CO.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

February 15, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theron Lamar Caudle, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ellis N. Slack, A. F. Prescott, Maryhelen Wigle and Louise Foster, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., Ernest A. Tolin, U. S. Atty., E. H. Mitchell, Asst. U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

Dempsey, Thayer, Deibert & Kumler, Thomas R. Dempsey, Wellman P. Thayer, Arthur H. Deibert, William L. Kumler, all of Los Angeles, Cal. (Henry W. Coil, Riverside, Cal., Associate Counsel), for appellee.

Before DENMAN, Chief Judge, and ORR and POPE, Circuit Judges.


ORR, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents the question of the taxability as an "original issue" of certain preferred stock issued by appellee-taxpayer as part of an exchange for the preferred stock outstanding prior to a recapitalization of the corporation. The stamp tax was imposed pursuant to §§ 1800 and 1802(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C.A. §§ 1800, 1802(a) (prior to the 1947 amendments), and was paid under protest. Appellee duly...

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