AMERICAN TRUST CO. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 5604.

31 F.2d 47 (1929)

AMERICAN TRUST CO. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

February 25, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis S. Beedy, of San Francisco, Cal., for petitioner.

Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and Millar E. McGilchrist, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen. (C. M. Charest, Gen. Counsel, Bureau of Int. Revenue, of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for respondent.

Before RUDKIN and DIETRICH, Circuit Judges, and BEAN, District Judge.


DIETRICH, Circuit Judge.

On December 31, 1920, the American National Bank of San Francisco, hereinafter referred to as the petitioner, charged off on its books, and later in its income tax return for that year deducted from gross income, the sum of $68,538.41 as a bad debt. Disallowing the deduction, the Commissioner assessed an additional tax of $18,410.72. Petitioner appealed to the Board of Tax Appeals, and, failing to get relief, it comes here upon a petition...

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