CURRY v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 10.

117 F.2d 307 (1941)

CURRY v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

February 3, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris A. Schoenfeld, of New York City (Morris A. Schoenfeld and Max Bergman, both of New York City, of counsel), for petitioner Bernard F. Curry.

Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and J. Louis Monarch and Harry Marselli, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., for respondent Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

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


AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The question before us is whether the petitioner Curry in computing his taxable income for the year 1933 was entitled to deduct $15,518.52 on account of a debt ascertained in that year to be worthless. The Board of Tax Appeals held that he was not entitled to such a deduction in 1933 because the debt had been ascertained to be worthless in 1932. We think that its decision was right and should be affirmed.

Reuben Barnett, who...

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