HYGRADE FOOD PRODUCTS CORPORATION v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 283.

144 F.2d 115 (1944)

HYGRADE FOOD PRODUCTS CORPORATION v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

July 7, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willkie, Owen, Otis, Farr & Gallagher, of New York City (Carl M. Owen, Robert C. Vincent, and Myron Semmel, all of New York City, of counsel), for petitioner.

Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Sewall Key, and Carlton Fox, all of Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Before CHASE and FRANK, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

To taxpayer's contention that it sustained a loss under § 23(f) of the Revenue Act of 1934, 26 U.S.C.A. Int.Rev.Code, § 23 (f), as interpreted in Regulation 86, Article 23(e)-3, it is a sufficient answer that taxpayer did not in fact in the taxable year abandon the plant or sell it at scrap value, but sold it while the plant was still being operated. What taxpayer might have done is irrelevant. What it did is the controlling factor. The Regulation...

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