FARMER v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 2380.

126 F.2d 542 (1942)

FARMER et al. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

March 11, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott P. Crampton, of Washington, D. C. (Geo. E. H. Goodner, of Washington, D.C., on the brief), for petitioners.

Louise Foster, 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 respondent.

Before PHILLIPS, HUXMAN, and MURRAH, Circuit Judges.


HUXMAN, Circuit Judge.

Petitioners maintain this action as trustees in liquidation of the Central Material & Supply Company. The question is whether the Commissioner and the Board of Tax Appeals erred in disallowing in petitioners' 1935 income tax return a claimed deduction of $22,866.13 on account of a bad debt, and a further deduction of $10,804, attorneys' fees, as an ordinary business expense.1

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