ESTATE OF SCHWEHM v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 29874.

17 T.C. 1435 (1952)

ESTATE OF ERNEST SCHWEHM, DECEASED, ERNEST SCHWEHM, JR., MARTHA S. MacLEAN AND MARY S. SHOFF, EXECUTORS, PETITIONERS, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated February 29, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel H. Levy, Esq., and Bernard Wolfman, Esq., for the petitioners.

Maurice S. Bush, Esq., for the respondent.


Respondent determined a deficiency in income tax for the year 1945 in the amount of $13,403.21. The sole issue is whether petitioners are entitled to a deduction of $31,839.43 or any part of such amount as a loss under section 23 (e) (1) or (2) of the Internal Revenue Code or as a bad debt under section 23 (k) (1) of the Code for payments made on a promissory note to a bank dated May 5, 1932, in the amount of $62,500 on which note Ernest Schwehm (hereinafter referred to as...

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