HAWKINS v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 29816.

20 T.C. 1069 (1953)

JAMES M. HAWKINS, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated September 25, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David R. Shelton, Esq., and Aaron L. Ford, Esq., for the petitioner.

John J. O'Toole, Esq., for the respondent.


Respondent has determined a deficiency in income tax of the petitioner for the calendar year 1943 in the amount of $10,913.37. Certain minor adjustments in determining the deficiency are not contested. The issue present for decision is the correctness of respondent's action in disallowing a deduction taken by petitioner upon his return for the year in question in the sum of $26,389.65 as representing a business bad debt deduction by reason of certain alleged indebtedness...

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