MAYER TANK MFG. CO. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REV.

No. 127.

126 F.2d 588 (1942)

MAYER TANK MFG. CO., Inc., v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

March 14, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alex M. Hamburg, of New York City (Jacob W. Friedman, of New York City, of Counsel), for petitioner.

Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and J. Louis Monarch and Michael H. Cardozo, IV, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., for respondent.

Before L. HAND, CHASE and FRANK, Circuit Judges.


FRANK, Circuit Judge.

1. The taxpayer had at all times, until it came before us, taken an all-or-nothing attitude toward the allowance of the claimed deduction. At no time did it suggest to the Commissioner that if 100% of the debt was not deductible, some smaller portion should be allowed as a deduction. Nor did it request the Board to determine whether there was partial worthlessness. We think that it is now too late to ask for such a determination. For the Commissioner...

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