JESSOP v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 24685.

16 T.C. 491 (1951)

F. W. JESSOP, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated February 28, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. D. McCurdy, Esq., for the petitioner.

A. J. Friedman, Esq., for the respondent.


This proceeding involves an asserted income tax deficiency of $4,183.56 and a claimed overpayment of $4,640 for the calendar year 1947.

The petitioner assigns as errors: (1) the respondent's action in including in ordinary income the amount of $13,500 reported on the return as a capital gain realized on the cancellation of a certain contract in December 1947, and (2) the petitioner's action in reporting on his 1947 return as ordinary income instead of a capital gain...

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