333 F2d 603 Grant v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

333 F.2d 603

Norman A. GRANT and Genevieve K. Grant, Wallace F. Holladay and Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, Henry J. Kaufman and Irma N. Kaufman, Frank J. Luchs and Elizabeth Luchs, Maurice D. Rosenberg, Jr., and Charlotte R. Rosenberg, Petitioners,
v.
COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.

No. 9344

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Argued April 17, 1964.

Decided June 15, 1964.

John P. Lipscomb, Washington, D. C. (George W. Beatty, Philip S. Peyser and William E. Rollow, Washington, D. C., on brief), for petitioners.

Myron C. Baum, Attorney, Department of Justice (Louis F. Oberdorfer, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Lee A. Jackson, Meyer Rothwacks, Michael K. Cavanaugh and Stephen B. Wolfberg, Attorneys, Department of Justice, on brief), for respondent.

Before BRYAN and BELL, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, District Judge.

PER CURIAM:

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Determination of whether the taxpayer realized ordinary income on capital gains from sales of land and options for land is presented by this petition of review of the decisions of the Tax Court of the United States in these consolidated cases. The Tax Court held that petitioners' gains were from the sale of property held primarily for sale to customers in the ordinary course of petitioners' business and were taxable to them as ordinary income. Our review of the record, and consideration of the briefs and arguments of counsel lead us to the conclusion that the Tax Court correctly decided these consolidated cases. Upon the Tax Court's Memorandum Findings of Fact and Opinion the decisions of the Tax Court are

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Affirmed.