COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. CARMAN

No. 173, Docket 21809.

189 F.2d 363 (1951)

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. CARMAN. CARMAN v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided May 23, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theron Lamar Caudle, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ellis N. Slack, Helen Goodner and Morton K. Rothschild, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for the Commissioner.

Whitman, Ransom, Coulson & Goetz, New York City, Robert E. Coulson, Harold F. Noneman and Charles S. Whitman, Jr., all of New York City, of counsel, for the taxpayer.

Before SWAN, CHASE and FRANK, Circuit Judges.


SWAN, Circuit Judge.

The Tax Court determined a deficiency in the income tax of William W. Carman for the year 1944. The Commissioner seeks review on the ground that the deficiency found was too small. The taxpayer's petition asserts that the court erred in finding any deficiency. The question presented is whether common stock and cash received by the taxpayer pursuant to a plan of reorganization is taxable on a capital gains basis or as ordinary income.

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