JACKSON v. KING

No. 15403.

223 F.2d 714 (1955)

Kirby H. JACKSON and Robert L. Phinney, Appellants, v. C. E. KING and Juanita M. King, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 24, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell B. Wine, U. S. Atty., Bradford F. Miller, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., C. Moxley Featherston, Ellis N. Slack, Special Assts. to Atty. Gen., H. Brian Holland, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellants.

W. B. Browder, Jr., Midland, Tex., Marvin K. Collie, John G. Heard, Houston, Tex., for appellees.

Before TUTTLE, CAMERON and JONES, Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

The question presented in the court below was whether the appellees realized ordinary income or capital gains from the sale of 49 houses in 1947 and 46 houses in 1948, which were owned by them as community property. Appellees having reported the amounts in question as capital gains, appellants, Acting Collectors of Internal Revenue for the First District of Texas, assessed and collected deficiencies totalling $72,597.01, based on their finding...

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