FRIEDMAN v. DELANEY

No. 4372.

171 F.2d 269 (1948)

FRIEDMAN v. DELANEY, Collector.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

December 13, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee M. Friedman, of Boston, Mass. (Sidney Werlin and Friedman, Atherton, King & Turner, all of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for appellant.

Sumner M. Redstone, Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen. (Theron L. Caudle, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ellis N. Slack, Lee A. Jackson, and Robert M. Weston, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., and William T. McCarthy, U. S. Atty., and W. Arthur Garrity, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for appellee.

Before MAGRUDER, Chief Judge, WOODBURY, Circuit Judge, and PETERS, District Judge.


PETERS, District Judge.

In this suit the plaintiff taxpayer seeks to recover the sum of $3,411.47, the amount by which his income tax for the year 1941 was increased by reason of the refusal of the Commissioner to allow the deduction of an item of $5000, claimed in the income tax return to be a bad debt, but now asserted to be allowable as a business expense or a loss incurred in business. There is no dispute about the facts...

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