MAYS v. BOWERS

No. 6527.

201 F.2d 401 (1953)

MAYS v. BOWERS.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 31, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Lumpkin, Columbia, S. C. (Boyd, Bruton & Lumpkin, Columbia, S. C., on the brief), for appellant.

Harry Marselli, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Charles S. Lyon, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ellis N. Slack and Morton K. Rothschild, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., Ben Scott Whaley, U. S. Atty., Charleston, S. C., and Claud N. Sapp, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Columbia, S. C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


PARKER, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by the representative of a deceased taxpayer and involves the right of the taxpayer who had been elected to office to deduct his campaign expenses in income tax returns in which the salary of the office was returned as income. The taxpayer Fred L. Mays in May 1946 was elected to the City Council of Columbia, S. C., a position carrying a salary of $4,000 per year. In the course of his campaign for the office he incurred and paid...

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