CHAHOON v. HICKEY

Civ. No. 1500.

60 F.Supp. 409 (1944)

CHAHOON v. HICKEY, Collector of Internal Revenue.

District Court, N. D. New York.

December 28, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence Graves, of New York City, for plaintiff.

Irving J. Higbee, U. S. Atty., of Syracuse, and Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. (Andrew D. Sharpe and Frederic G. Rita, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen.), for defendant.


BRYANT, District Judge.

This is a suit for the recovery of $11,311.45 alleged to have been collected from the taxpayer as income taxes for the year 1936.

Question Presented.

Was the taxpayer, in computing his income taxes for the year 1936, entitled under Section 23(e) of the Revenue Act of 1936, 26 U.S.C.A. Int.Rev.Code, § 23(e), to deduct from gross income as a loss an amount paid by him to indemnify a bank, of which the taxpayer was president...

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