KNOP v. UNITED STATES

No. 15527.

234 F.2d 760 (1956)

Herman KNOP and Dorothy Owen Knop, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

June 25, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edson Smith, Omaha, Neb. (David W. Swarr and Swarr, May, Royce, Smith & Story, Omaha, Neb., on the brief), for appellants.

Kenneth E. Levin, Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Charles K. Rice, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry W. Shackelford, U. S. Atty., Omaha, Neb., Lee A. Jackson and Robert N. Anderson, Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before GARDNER, Chief Judge, and VOGEL and VAN OOSTERHOUT, Circuit Judges.


GARDNER, Chief Judge.

Appellants, who are husband and wife, for the taxable year 1948 filed a joint income tax return. In due course, on October 23, 1952, the Director of Internal Revenue made a deficiency assessment in the amount of $9,799.44. This deficiency assessment was bottomed on the fact that Dorothy Owen Knop had during that taxable year sold to her brother, Edward Owen, for $43,500 one hundred forty-five shares of the capital stock of the Paxton & Vierling...

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