Bath v. United States

NOEL, District Judge.

The facts of this case are not in dispute and have been stipulated. In February 1953 Albert A. Bath, the taxpayer, and Adele L. Bath, his wife, sold certain Texas land owned by them as community property. They received for the land a total consideration of $139,090.00, of which $29,000.00 was paid in cash and the balance of $110,090.00 was evidenced by the purchaser’s promissory note for $110,090.00 secured by a vendor’s lien reserved by the sellers. Said note was payable in ten annual payments of $11,-009.00 each, and bearing interest at the rate of four per cent per…