DAVOCK v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 36501.

20 T.C. 1075 (1953)

HARLOW N. DAVOCK, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated September 25, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank H. Boyer, Esq., for the petitioner.

Robert J. Fetterman, Esq., for the respondent.


The Commissioner has determined a deficiency in income tax of the petitioner for the taxable year 1945 in the amount of $2,535.18. The question presented is whether the respondent has erred in disallowing a short-term capital loss on the sale by petitioner of a 20-acre tract of land sold in conjunction with 915 acres of other land contiguous thereto.

FINDINGS OF FACT.

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