C. I. R. v. MORRIS TRUST

No. 9837.

367 F.2d 794 (1966)

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Petitioner, v. Mary Archer W. MORRIS TRUST, North Carolina National Bank, Trustee, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 5, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred R. Becker, Atty., Dept. of Justice (Louis F. Oberdorfer, Asst. Atty. Gen., John B. Jones, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson and Harry Baum, Attys., Dept. of Justice, on brief), for petitioner.

Robert L. Hines and Richard E. Thigpen, Charlotte, N. C. (Richard E. Thigpen, Jr., Charlotte, N. C., on brief), for respondent.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judge, and STANLEY, District Judge.


HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge.

Its nubility impaired by the existence of an insurance department it had operated for many years, a state bank divested itself of that business before merging with a national bank. The divestiture was in the form of a traditional "spin-off," but, because it was a preliminary step to the merger of the banks, the Commissioner treated their receipt of stock of the insurance company as ordinary income to the stockholders of the state bank. We...

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