KINSEY v. C. I. R.

No. 644, Docket 72-2071.

477 F.2d 1058 (1973)

John P. KINSEY and Edith B. Kinsey, Petitioners-Appellants, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 7, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Murtha, Hartford, Conn. (Murtha, Cullina, Richter & Pinney, and Peter G. Gillin, Hartford, Conn., on the brief), for petitioners-appellants.

William A. Friedlander, Atty., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice (Scott P. Crampton, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Meyer Rothwacks, Atty., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, on the brief), for respondent-appellee.

Before FRIENDLY, Chief Judge, LUMBARD, Circuit Judge, and THOMSEN, District Judge.


THOMSEN, District Judge:

This appeal by taxpayers John P. Kinsey (Kinsey) and his wife presents the question whether they were entitled to exclude from gross income the liquidating dividends received by DePauw University on shares of stock of Container Properties, Inc. (Container), which Kinsey had given to DePauw after the directors and stockholders of Container had adopted a plan of liquidation under § 337 of the Internal Revenue Code, had already made distributions...

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