COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. McCARTHY

No. 7898.

129 F.2d 84 (1942)

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. McCARTHY.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

July 8, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Louis Monarch and Louise Foster, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and J. P. Wenchel and Roy N. McMillan, both of Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

Robert F. Carey and John D. Clancy, Jr., both of Chicago, Ill. (Howard R. Brintlinger, and Patrick S. Filter, both of Chicago, Ill., of counsel), for respondent.

Before EVANS and SPARKS, Circuit Judges, and LINDLEY, District Judge.


SPARKS, Circuit Judge.

The Commissioner challenges a decision of the Board of Tax Appeals permitting the taxpayer to deduct as a loss under § 23(e) of the Revenue Act of 1936, 26 U.S.C.A. Int.Rev.Code § 23(e), his investment in a parcel of real estate claimed to have been abandoned by him during that tax year.

The facts, as stated by the Board in its findings, were that the taxpayer, respondent, together with one John McCabe, purchased an unimproved...

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