Planters Cotton Oil Co of Waxahachie, Tex v. Hopkins
| Decision Date | 16 May 1932 |
| Docket Number | No. 672,672 |
| Citation | 52 S.Ct. 509,76 L.Ed. 1135,286 U.S. 332 |
| Parties | PLANTERS' COTTON OIL CO., Inc., OF WAXAHACHIE, TEX., et al. v. HOPKINS, Collector of Internal Revenue |
| Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
Messrs. J. M. Burford, of Dallas, Tex., William A. Sutherland, of Atlanta, Ga., and Joe A. Worsham, of Dallas, Tex., for petitioners.
The Attorney General and Mr. Whitney North Seymour, of Washington, D. C., for respondent.
Three corporations, Planters' Cotton Oil Co., Inc., Waxahachie, Planters' Cotton Oil Co., Inc., Ennis, and Farmers' Gins, Inc., were organized under the laws of Texas in August, and September, 1924. Two joint-stock associations, Planters' Cotton Oil Company, Waxahachie, and Planters' Cotton Oil Company, Ennis, which had been organized in earlier years, retained their separate existence. One man, H. N. Chapman, was the owner of 98 per cent. of the shares of the unincorporated associations. He caused the assets of those associations, or substantially all of them, to be transferred to the newly organized corporations, and received in return substantially all the shares of stock.
For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, the three corporations and the two jointstock associations filed a consolidated income tax return wherein the corporations, which had earned a net income of $147,636.25, claimed a deduction of $78,399.25 for loss suffered by the associations during the year preceding the affiliation. The deduction was disallowed, and suit was brought by the corporation and the associations for the refund of the tax to the extent of the overpayment claimed. The District Court dismissed the petition (47 F.(2d) 659); the Court of Appeals affirmed (53 F.(2d) 825); and by certiorari the case is here (285 U. S. 533, 52 S. Ct. 405, 76 L. Ed. —).
The controversy is ruled by our judgment in Woolford Realty Co., Inc. v. Rose, 286 U. S. 319, 52 S. Ct. 568, 76 L. Ed. —, unless the fact that in this case one shareholder, Chapman, was the owner of substantially all the shares of the five affiliated companies supplies an essential element of difference. We think it does not. Chapman was free, if he desired, to continue to do business in an unincorporated form. Preferring the privileges of corporate organization, he brought into being three corporations and did business through them. These corporations are not identical with the unincorporated associations to whose principal assets they have...
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