RUPE INVESTMENT CORPORATION v. C. I. R.

No. 17466.

266 F.2d 624 (1959)

RUPE INVESTMENT CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 28, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert F. Ritchie and Ritchie, Ritchie & Crosland, Dallas, Tex., for petitioner.

George W. Beatty, A. F. Prescott, Carter Bledsoe, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., John M. Morawski, Sp. Atty., I.R.S., Arch M. Cantrall, Chief Counsel, I.R.S., Washington, D. C., Lee A. Jackson, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Charles K. Rice, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

Before RIVES, CAMERON, and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

This appeal focuses on the tax consequences of the sale of the Baker Hotel in Dallas, Texas. In 1949 Rupe Investment Corporation, the taxpayer, was the record owner of 108,010 shares of Baker Hotel common stock at the time when the hotel company paid a dividend of $9 a share. In its 1950 return Rupe Investment claimed a dividend received credit (85%) for the dividends ($972,090) on the Baker Hotel stock, under § 26(b) of the Internal Revenue...

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