AMES v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 2827.

68 F.2d 301 (1933)

AMES v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

December 15, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burton E. Eames, of Boston, Mass. (George M. Naylor, Jr., and Tyler, Eames, Wright & Reynolds, all of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for petitioner.

J. P. Jackson, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Pat Malloy, Asst. Atty. Gen., and J. Louis Monarch and John MacC. Hudson, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., on the brief), for Commissioner.

Before WILSON and MORTON, Circuit Judges, and McLELLAN, District Judge.


MORTON, Circuit Judge.

The question is whether a loss which the petitioner incurred in 1922 by the liquidation of a corporation, called Office of Winthrop Ames, Inc., was a business loss which might be spread over the two following years, or an investment loss which could be taken only in that year. The facts are found by the Board of Tax Appeals.

For about two years prior to 1912, Ames had been engaged in the business of theatrical productions. In that year...

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