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REAL ESTATE TRUST CO. OF PHILADELPHIA v. UNITED STATES

No. 19554.

20 F.Supp. 20 (1937)

REAL ESTATE TRUST CO. OF PHILADELPHIA et al. v. UNITED STATES.

District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

June 23, 1937.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Thorington and James B. Lichtenberger, both of Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Paul R. Russell, of Washington, D. C., and Thomas J. Curtin, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Charles D. McAvoy, U. S. Atty., both of Philadelphia, Pa., for the United States.

WELSH, District Judge.

This case is before us upon the petition of John Gribbel to recover from the United States $20,099.96, alleged to be an overpayment of income tax for the year 1932. The claim is based upon the refusal of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to allow, as a deduction from income, the taxpayer's investment of $95,194.45 in the stock of the Cherokee Company which he alleges became worthless in that year. John Gribbel is now deceased and the executors...

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