ROYCE v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 42401.

13 T.C.M. 1080 (1954)

T. C. Memo. 1954-207

Emma Royce, Sole Beneficiary of Ernest Royce, Deceased; Emma Royce v. Commissioner.

United States Tax Court.

Filed November 30, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Dean Evans, Esq., for the petitioner. Merl B. Peek, Esq., for the respondent.


Respondent determined a deficiency in income tax for petitioner and her husband (now deceased) for the taxable year ending December 31, 1949, in the amount of $450.26.

The issue before us grows out of disallowance by respondent of a deduction of $2,000 which petitioner and her husband had taken on their return for 1949. The deduction was taken on the theory that the amount in question represented a debt which had become worthless in the year in question.

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