COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. EHRHART

No. 7751.

82 F.2d 338 (1936)

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. EHRHART.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 27, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. P. Jackson, Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen., Frank J. Wideman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Sewall Key, Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen., and Robert H. Jackson, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue, and Roy N. McMillan, Sp. Atty. for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, both of Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

William A. Wilson, of Pittsburgh, Pa., for respondent.

Before FOSTER, SIBLEY, and WALKER, Circuit Judges.


WALKER, Circuit Judge.

In his income tax return for the year 1930, the respondent claimed as a deductible loss the sum of $9,999, being the difference between the price, $10,000, paid by respondent in 1915 for 100 shares of the stock of the Consolidated Company, an Illinois corporation (which stock was surrendered to that corporation for 60 shares of its stock, that exchange resulting in neither gain nor loss), and the amount $1, for which respondent transferred that...

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