NICHOLSON v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 4925.

218 F.2d 240 (1954)

N. J. NICHOLSON, Petitioner, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

December 27, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank M. Cavanaugh, Denver, Colo., for petitioner.

Grant W. Wiprud, Special Asst. to the Atty. Gen. (H. Brian Holland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ellis N. Slack and Lee A. Jackson, Special Assts. to the Atty. Gen., were with him on the brief), for respondent.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, and BRATTON and HUXMAN, United States Circuit Judges.


HUXMAN, Circuit Judge.

The question presented by this appeal is the treatment to be accorded to a bad debt loss admittedly sustained by the appellant taxpayer in the year 1946 for income tax purposes. The loss sustained by the taxpayer resulted from an advance of $6,891.61 to the Chaffee County Fluorspar Corporation, herein called Fluorspar, and from the endorsement of the Corporation's note in the sum of $4,500. It was stipulated before the Tax Court that the question...

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