Choate v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

FRANK, Circuit Judge.

This petition involves the petitioner’s liability for an asserted income tax deficiency of $2,789.45, imposed by reason of his receipt of stock purchase rights. The facts were stipulated before the Board, and were found by it as stipulated. The taxpayer owned 10,000 shares of the common stock of the Crane Company, an Illinois corporation, which had outstanding on May 1, 1937, 2,348,628 shares of common and 145,889 shares of seven percent cumulative preferred. In May, 1937, Crane’s articles of incorporation were amended to authorize the issuance of 200,000 shares of five…