COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. HAWN

No. 15658.

231 F.2d 340 (1956)

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Petitioner, v. John David HAWN and Bette Hawn, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 25, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Brian Holland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ellis N. Slack, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., Melva M. Graney, John Potts Barnes, Chief Counsel, Int. Rev. Ser., Claude R. Marshall, Sp. Atty., Lee A. Jackson, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

Marvin K. Collie, John G. Heard, Houston, Tex., Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Searls, Houston, Tex., of counsel, for respondent.

Before BORAH, TUTTLE and JONES, Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This is a petition for review of a decision of the Tax Court holding that an absolute transfer for value of $854,993.25 in "oil payments" to a transferee until he received $120,000.00 from such payments, with automatic reconveyance to the transferor thereafter, was a sale or exchange of capital assets, and did not, as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue asserted, result in the receipt of ordinary income.

The facts regarding the transfer...

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