WILLIAMS v. McGOWAN

Civ. No. 1528.

58 F.Supp. 692 (1944)

WILLIAMS v. McGOWAN, Collector of Internal Revenue.

District Court, W. D. New York.

December 9, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mandeville, Buck, Tester & Marpending, of Elmira, N. Y., for plaintiff.

Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Andrew D. Sharpe and Benjamin H. Pester, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and George L. Grobe, U. S. Atty., and R. Norman Kirchgraber, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Buffalo, N. Y., for defendant.


KNIGHT, District Judge.

The case has been submitted on an agreed state of facts. Two questions are at issue, to wit: (1) Are attorneys' fees paid for obtaining an income tax refund deductible expenses; and (2) Was the sale in question a sale of "capital assets".

Aaron F. Williams, taxpayer, and one Jacob Reynolds were copartners in a hardware business commencing in 1926 and continuing until Reynolds died on July 18, 1940. On September 6, 1940, the taxpayer...

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