INTERNATIONAL SHOE MACHINE CORP. v. UNITED STATES

No. 73-1337.

491 F.2d 157 (1974)

INTERNATIONAL SHOE MACHINE CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 23, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Evan Y. Semerjian, Boston, Mass., with whom James D. St. Clair and Hale & Dorr, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellant.

Joseph M. McManus, Atty., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, with whom Scott P. Crampton, Asst. Atty. Gen., James N. Gabriel, U. S. Atty., Meyer Rothwacks, and Ernest J. Brown, Attys., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, were on brief, for appellee.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, ALDRICH and McENTEE, Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Chief Judge.

Appellant taxpayer contends that the Commissioner of Internal Revenue erroneously treated income realized from the appellant's sales of certain shoe machines as "property held by the taxpayer primarily for sale to customers in the ordinary course of his trade or business", 26 U.S.C. § 1231(b) (1) (B), thereby taxing it as ordinary income instead of treating it under the capital gains provisions of the Code, and assessing deficiencies against...

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