COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. GREEN

No. 7835.

126 F.2d 70 (1942)

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. GREEN et ux.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided February 10, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. W. Post, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and J. Louis Monarch, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., on the brief), for petitioner.

Maurice M. Green, of Philadelphia, Pa., for respondents.

Before CLARK and JONES, Circuit Judges, and GIBSON, District Judge.


JONES, Circuit Judge.

The question here involved is whether the respondent taxpayers (husband and wife) are entitled to deduct as an ordinary loss in the year 1935 the base net cost to the husband of real estate held by him for profit which he abandoned in that year to the mortgagee thereof or whether they are limited to a deduction as for a loss from the sale of a capital asset in 1936 when the property was sold at sheriff's sale upon foreclosure of the mortgage...

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