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Commissioner Vs. Wodehouse

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 13, 1949

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  1. Waterman Vs. Mackenzie US Supreme Court · Feb 02, 1891
  2. Eisner Vs. Macomber US Supreme Court · Mar 08, 1920
  3. U.S. 369 (1949) U.S. Supreme Court Commissioner v. Wodehouse
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  4. U.S. 369 (1949) Commissioner v. Wodehouse
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  5. judgment against him was there reversed, 166 F.2d 986, one judge dissenting on the authority and reasoning of Rohmer v. Commissioner
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  6. in a case which dealt with the taxation of a somewhat comparable form of income of a foreign corporation. In Helvering v. Stockholms
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  7. income derived from a source within the United States, and the natural aim of Congress would be to reach it. In Irwin v. Gavit
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  8. it expresses at the start. Congress intended to use its power to the full extent. Page 337 U. S. 379 Eisner v. Macomber
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  9. American Viscose Corp. v. Commissioner
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  10. and circumstances of its use, and other appropriate tests for the ascertainment of the legislative will. Compare Rein v. Lane
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  11. the Revenue Act of 1928, c. 852, 45 Stat. 791, sustain the above conclusions. The latter case was that of Sabatini v. Commissioner
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  12. later Page 337 U. S. 386 discussed and approved in Rohmer v. Commissioner
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  13. a). The decisions of the Court of Appeals of the Second Circuit in Sabatini v. Commissioner
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  14. supra, in 1938, in relation to the Revenue Act of 1928, and in Rohmer v. Commissioner
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  15. under the Revenue Act of 1928, Sabatini v. Commissioner
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  16. supra, and under the Internal Revenue Code, as amended in 1940, Rohmer v. Commissioner
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  17. that is before us. It reversed an intermediate holding made by the Board of Tax Appeals in 1935 in Sabatini v. Commissioner
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  18. carried its interpretation into the Revenue Act of 1936. If anything, the contrary might be argued as to Sabatini v. Commissioner
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  19. Commissioner v. Affiliated
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  20. Congress, by granting copyrights, has created valuable property rights. See American Tobacco Co. v. Werckmeister
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  21. White-Smith Music Pub. Co. v. Apollo
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  22. b). General Page 337 U. S. 409 Aniline & Film Corp. v. Commissioner
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  23. Commissioner v. Celanese
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  24. the parties, by agreement, act in such a way as to cause the proceeds to be received in a different manner. Cf. Lyeth v. Hoey
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  25. does not make a transaction something else than it truly is -- it does not turn a sale into a license. Helvering v. Gregory
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  26. Surely it is a sale of a capital asset. See Learned Hand, J., in Goldsmith v. Commissioner
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  27. pertaining to nonresident given to the administrative Page 337 U. S. 415 view. Cf. Bingham's Trust v. Commissioner
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  28. a)(4) by the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Helvering v. Hallock
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  29. long as the transfer consisted of at least one of the three rights separately listed in the patent statute. Waterman v. Mackenzie
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  30. Photo Drama Motion Picture Co. v. Social
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  31. and has, of course, Page 337 U. S. 422 been considered a property right. See Photo Drama Motion Picture Co. v. Social
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  32. Photo Drama Motion Picture Co. v. Social
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  33. Withers v. Nethersole
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  34. Goldsmith v. Commissioner
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  35. Photo Drama Motion Picture Co. v. Social
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  36. Sabatini v. Commissioner
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  37. This case was not decided until 1946. Rohmer v. Commissioner
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  38. F.2d 61. Molnar v. Commissioner
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  39. In Rohmer v. Commissioner
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  40. F.2d page 63. That the doctrine of indivisibility determined decision appears from Standard Oil Co. v. Clark
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  41. F.2d 917, 936, 939. The decision in Sabatini v. Commissioner
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  42. General Aniline & Film Corp. v. Commissioner
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  43. Commissioner v. Celanese
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  44. Learned Hand, J., in Photo Drama Motion Picture Co. v. Social
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  45. Uplift Film Corp., 213 F. 374, 377. See also Withers v. Nethersole
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  46. U.S. Supreme Court Commissioner v. Wodehouse
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  47. of Rohmer v. Commissioner
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  48. In Helvering v. Stockholms
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  49. In Irwin v. Gavit
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  50. Compare Rein v. Lane
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