HANCOCK v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 323.

105 F.2d 153 (1939)

HANCOCK v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

June 26, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hancock, Dorr, Ryan & Shove, of Syracuse, N. Y. (Benjamin E. Shove, of Syracuse, N. Y., of counsel), for petitioner.

James W. Morris, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and Morton K. Rothschild, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for respondent.

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


SWAN, Circuit Judge.

The deficiency in the taxpayer's income tax results from the disallowance of two deductions, one claimed as a loss sustained on corporate stock which became worthless in 1933, the other claimed as a bad debt that was charged off on the taxpayer's books in that year. The question presented is whether there is substantial evidence to support the Board's finding that neither stock nor debt became worthless during the taxable year. No testimony was...

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