EWING v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 25111.

20 T.C. 216 (1953)

LUCIA CHASE EWING, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated April 30, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randolph E. Paul, Esq., and Eugene H. Lattin, Esq., for the petitioner.

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


The respondent has determined a deficiency of $48,397.37 in the petitioner's income tax liability for the calendar year 1943. The issue raised in this proceeding is the deductibility of sums either as a loss incurred in a transaction entered into for profit or as a worthless debt. The calendar year 1942 is involved because of the forgiveness provisions in the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943.

FINDINGS OF FACT.

The petitioner, a resident of New York, New York...

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