STOKES v. UNITED STATES


19 F.Supp. 577 (1937)

STOKES v. UNITED STATES.

District Court, S. D. New York.

May 27, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stewart & Shearer, of New York City, for petitioner.

Lamar Hardy, U. S. Atty., of New York City (Charles J. Nager, Asst. U. S. Atty., and David McKibben, Sp. Asst. U. S. Atty., both of New York City, of counsel), for the United States.


MANDELBAUM, District Judge.

This action is to recover income taxes paid by the plaintiff to the United States for the year 1929.

The basis of the complaint is that in 1929, the plaintiff sustained a loss of $36,719.33 during that year which he contends was incurred in a transaction entered into for profit, although not connected with plaintiff's business, and which loss was rejected by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue as a deduction from plaintiff's gross...

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