COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. COVINGTON

No. 9806.

120 F.2d 768 (1941)

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. COVINGTON et al. COVINGTON et al. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 17, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph M. Jones, Sewall Key, and Miss Ellyne E. Strickland, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for the Commissioner.

Carl J. Batter, of Washington, D. C., for taxpayers.

Before FOSTER, HUTCHESON, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The Board of Tax Appeals decided (1) that Commodity Futures Trading losses incurred in the years 1936 and 1937, were capital losses and subject to the $2,000 limitation of Section 117 (d), Revenue Act of 1936, 26 U.S.C.A. Int.Rev.Acts, page 875, and (2) that commissions paid in connection with such trades were deductible but only to the extent that they are attributable to sales. The taxpayer is here complaining of the first ruling, and both...

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