COHEN v. KELM

Civ. No. 4007.

119 F.Supp. 376 (1953)

COHEN v. KELM.

United States District Court, D. Minnesota, Fourth Division.

December 2, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheldon D. Karlins (of Sachs, Karlins, Grossman & Karlins), Minneapolis, Minn., for plaintiff.

H. Brian Holland, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Andrew D. Sharpe and Paul S. McMahon, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., all of Washington, D. C., and George E. MacKinnon, United States Attorney, and Alex Dim, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of St. Paul, Minn., for defendant.


NORDBYE, Chief Judge.

Two questions are presented: (1) Is a sole proprietorship of a business, such as a retail store, a capital asset so that a gain on its sale is a capital gain; and (2) if such a sole proprietorship is not a capital asset, how is it determined what part of the purchase price is attributable to good-will, good-will being a capital asset?

Cohen, the taxpayer, operated a retail clothing store at Ladysmith, Wisconsin, for some 23 years until...

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