JOHNSON v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 97.

86 F.2d 710 (1936)

JOHNSON v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

December 14, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kellogg, Emery & Inness-Brown, of New York City (Dean Emery, J. Fearon Brown, and J. Raymond Kochendorfer, all of New York City, of counsel), for petitioner.

Robert H. Jackson, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and John G. Remey, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., for respondent.

Before L. HAND, SWAN, and CHASE, Circuit Judges.


SWAN, Circuit Judge.

The deficiency in dispute results from the disallowance of a deduction of $24,000 claimed by the petitioner to have been paid as interest on his promissory note, and to be an allowable deduction from gross income under section 23(b) of the Revenue Act of 1928 (45 Stat. 799 [26 U.S.C.A. § 23 and note]). The facts reveal an ingenious attempt to reduce taxes by means of a plan which was intended to give the character of interest payments to...

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