
    Mary J. Carpenter, Administratrix, Estate of Maud E. Carpenter, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent. Mary J. Carpenter, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent. D. M. Carpenter, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent. John F. Carpenter, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent.
    Docket Nos. 11070-11073.
    Promulgated October 10, 1927.
    
      Marion Butler, Esq., for the petitioners.
    
      P. J. Rose, Esq., for the respondent.
   Littleton :

The Commissioner determined and notified petitioners of deficiencies in income tax for the calendar year 1920 as follows:

Mary J. Carpenter, Administratix_ $160.99
Mary J. Carpenter- 160.99
D. M. Carpenter_ 5, 727.78
John F. Carpenter_ 139.73

The issue as presented by the pleadings and the evidence, which is the same in all of these proceedings, “ involves a question of fact, namely, the March 1, 1913, value of stock of the Maiden Cotton Mills ” of Maiden, N. C., 558 shares of which stock petitioners sold in 1920 for $300 a share.

findings of fact.

Petitioners are residents and citizens of Maiden, N. C. On March 1, 1913, and for many years prior thereto, they owned certain stock of the Maiden Cotton Mills, a North Carolina corporation, as follows:

Stares.
Maud E. Carpenter_ 50
Mary J. Carpenter_ 50
D. M. Carpenter_408
John E. Carpenter_ 50

This stock was acquired in 1894 in exchange for certain land and two operating cotton mills acquired and constructed by petitioners and other members of their family between 1880 and 1889.

The cost of the stock to petitioners, as determined by the Commissioner, is not in dispute, and during the year 1920 petitioners sold the stock owned by them in the Maiden Cotton Mills, as above set forth, for $300 a share.

The fair market value of this stock on March 1, 1913, was $275 a share. The Commissioner determined a value on March 1, 1913, for the stock in question, of $170.26 a share.

Judgment will be entered on 15 days’’ notice, under Bule 50.

Considered by Smith and Love.  