KITTREDGE v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 236.

88 F.2d 632 (1937)

KITTREDGE v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

March 8, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Satterlee & Canfield, of New York City (F. Morse Hubbard and Barham R. Gary, both of New York City, of counsel), for petitioner.

James W. Morris, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Sewall Key, Norman D. Keller, and Alexander Tucker, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., of counsel), for respondent.

Before L. HAND, SWAN, and AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judges.


SWAN, Circuit Judge.

In 1931 the petitioner sold a property known as the Weston Winery for substantially less than it had cost him. Whether the sale resulted in profit or loss for income tax purposes is the matter in dispute, and this turns on whether the cost of the property should be diminished by deductions for depreciation for the years 1922 to 1931, during which the petitioner had no tenant for it and did not operate it himself. Specifically, the question is...

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