PEEBLES v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 7431.

249 F.2d 92 (1957)

David Meade PEEBLES and Mary Crockett Peebles, Petitioners, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 7, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Meade Peebles, pro se.

Carolyn R. Just, Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Charles K. Rice, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson and Melva M. Graney, Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., on brief), for respondent.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOBELOFF and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This is a petition to review a decision of the Tax Court. The question involved is whether gains derived by the taxpayer from the sale of various parcels of real estate in the years 1947, 1948 and 1949 are to be treated as ordinary income or as capital gains. The Tax Court, affirming action by the Commissioner, held that the lands thus sold were held by taxpayer primarily for sale in the ordinary course of business within the meaning of sections 117(a...

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