BURNHAM v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 5937.

86 F.2d 776 (1936)

BURNHAM v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

December 8, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur R. Baar and Arthur R. Foss, both of Chicago, Ill., for petitioner.

Robert H. Jackson, Asst. Atty. Gen., and J. Louis Monarch and Harry Marselli, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., for respondent.

Before SPARKS, Circuit Judge, and LINDLEY and BRIGGLE, District Judges.


SPARKS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Board of Tax Appeals, involving deductible losses under section 112(b) (3) of the Revenue Act of 1928 (26 U.S.C.A. § 112(b) (3) and note). Certain creditors of a corporation, which was undergoing recapitalization, were also its principal stockholders and held the company's promissory note. They exchanged these notes for new stock of the corporation. The Board held that they were not entitled to deduct...

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