SOUTHWEST NATURAL GAS CO. v. COMMISSIONER OF INT. REV.

No. 13379.

189 F.2d 332 (1951)

SOUTHWEST NATURAL GAS CO. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

May 30, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Archie O. Dawson, Paul Smith, New York City, for petitioner.

Hilbert P. Zarky, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., Theron Lamar Caudle, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ellis N. Slack, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., Charles Oliphant, Chief Counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Claude R. Marshall, Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and BORAH and RUSSELL, Circuit Judges.


RUSSELL, Circuit Judge.

The correctness of asserted deficiencies for corporate income tax for the year 1941 and of declared value excess profits tax and excess profits tax for 1942 due by Southwest Natural Gas Company depends upon whether a merger of Peoples Gas & Fuel Corporation with the taxpayer, effected in accordance with the laws of Delaware, was a sale, as asserted by the Commissioner, or a "reorganization" within the terms of Section 112(g) of the Internal...

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