GRIGSBY v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 5890.

87 F.2d 96 (1937)

GRIGSBY v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

January 8, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Isaac B. Lipson, E. H. McDermott, and William M. Emery, all of Chicago, Ill., for petitioner.

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

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


SPARKS, Circuit Judge.

This petition for review of a decision of the Board of Tax Appeals raises the question whether the loss resulting from being compelled to take up the stock which was the subject of an underwriting agreement and which was worth less at the date of delivery than petitioner was required by the terms of the agreement to pay for it, is deductible from gross income in the year of the transaction. The Board of Tax Appeals held that the transaction...

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