EXPOSITION SOUVENIR CORP. v. COMMISSIONER OF INT. REV.

No. 245, Docket 20230.

163 F.2d 283 (1947)

EXPOSITION SOUVENIR CORPORATION v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

July 8, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene Frederick Roth, of New York City, for petitioner.

Sewall Key, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson and Morton K. Rothschild, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for respondent.

Before L. HAND, SWAN and AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judges.


SWAN, Circuit Judge.

The question presented by this appeal is whether a loss sustained by the taxpayer on the sale of New York World's Fair debentures, which it purchased as a condition precedent to obtaining souvenir and postcard concessions at the Fair, should be considered a long-term capital loss or a business expense in computing the taxpayer's excess profits tax for the fiscal year ending May 31, 1941.

The facts as found by the Tax Court are as follows...

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