JACOBS v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 14374.

224 F.2d 412 (1955)

S. Nicholas JACOBS and Dolores I. Jacobs, Petitioners, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

June 28, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Everett S. Layman, Kenneth S. Carey, Lawrence W. Jordan, Jr., James M. Dennis, Everett S. Layman, Jr., San Francisco, Cal., for appellants.

H. Brian Holland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Melva H. Graney, Ellis N. Slack, David O. Walter, Special Asst. Attys. Gen., John Potts Barnes, Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before DENMAN, Chief Judge, BONE, Circuit Judge, and LINDBERG, District Judge


DENMAN, Chief Judge.

Petitioners, husband and wife filing joint returns, seek a review of the Tax Court's findings and decision of the income tax liability of petitioners for the year 1948. Since all the pertinent transactions were by the husband he is hereafter called petitioner.

The Tax Court found that at all pertinent times petitioner was in the business of holding and selling land.

On April 1, 1948, petitioner transferred certain land to a corporation...

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