COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. WRIGHT

No. 4436.

47 F.2d 871 (1931)

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. WRIGHT.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

March 13, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. A. Youngquist, Asst. Atty. Gen., Sewall Key and Morton K. Rothchild, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and C. M. Charest, Gen. Counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue, and De Witt M. Evans, Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, both of Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

O. G. Maxwell, of Danville, Ill., for respondent.

Before ALSCHULER and SPARKS, Circuit Judges, and BALTZELL, District Judge.


ALSCHULER, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner seeks review of a decision of the Board of Tax Appeals allowing the taxpayer a deduction from his federal income tax for the year 1922, which deduction petitioner had disallowed.

The facts found by the Board are, briefly, that in 1902 the taxpayer purchased 250 shares of corporate stock at par of $100, which on March 1, 1913, had a value of par; that the corporation encountered financial difficulties, and in 1922 the bankers...

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