EDWARD KATZINGER CO. v. COMMISSIONER OF INT. REVENUE

No. 7854.

129 F.2d 74 (1942)

EDWARD KATZINGER CO. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

July 10, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert A. Friedlich, Harry Thom, and Benjamin A. Ragir, all of Chicago, Ill. (Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt of Chicago, Ill., of counsel), for petitioner.

J. P. Wenchel and John W. Smith, both of Washington, D. C., Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key, S. Dee Hanson, and Louise Foster, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for respondent.

Before SPARKS, MAJOR and MINTON, Circuit Judges.


SPARKS, Circuit Judge.

The taxpayer petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Tax Appeals denying it a deduction for a bad debt loss resulting from a series of advances to a wholly owned subsidiary. The denial was based on the theory that allowance for the loss in 1936, the year of liquidation of the subsidiary, would permit a double deduction for the taxpayer who, the Commissioner alleged, had previously availed itself of the same loss by means of a consolidated...

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