REEVES v. C. I. R.

No. 14973.

314 F.2d 438 (1963)

Elwin H. V. REEVES, Jr., et ux., Petitioners, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

March 13, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank W. Cubbon, Jr., Toledo, Ohio, of counsel (Cubbon & Rice, Toledo, Ohio, on the brief), for petitioners.

Alan D. Pekelner, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Louis F. Oberdorfer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Meyer Rothwacks, Arthur I. Gould, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for respondent.

Before CECIL, Chief Judge, and MILLER and O'SULLIVAN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This case is before the Court on petition of Elwin H. V. Reeves, Jr., and wife, taxpayers, for review of a decision of the Tax Court of the United States. The review is being prosecuted solely on the part of the husband who will be referred to as petitioner or taxpayer.

In 1954, the petitioner, Elwin Reeves, sold a tract of farmland, consisting of fifty-eight acres, for the sum of $145,000. In his income tax return for that year he reported a cost...

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