AMES v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 8988.

49 F.2d 853 (1931)

AMES v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

April 18, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Briggs, of St. Paul, Minn. (Clapp, Richardson, Elmquist, Briggs & Macartney, of St. Paul, Minn., on the brief), for petitioner.

J. P. Jackson, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (G. A. Youngquist, Asst. Atty. Gen., Sewall Key, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., and C. M. Charest, Gen. Counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue, and Dean P. Kimball, Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, both of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for respondent.

Before STONE and GARDNER, Circuit Judges, and WOODROUGH, District Judge.


WOODROUGH, District Judge.

This case is before us on petition for review of the decision of the United States Board of Tax Appeals. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue refused to allow as a deduction from the gross income of the estate of Charles W. Ames, deceased, for the year 1922, the sum of $11,837.05, which the estate claimed by reason of the fact that in that year it had turned over to certain employees of the American Law Book Company stock owned by the estate...

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