TULANE HARDWOOD LUMBER CO. v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 49860.

24 T.C. 1146 (1955)

TULANE HARDWOOD LUMBER CO., INC., PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Filed September 30, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abner E. Hughes, Esq., for the petitioner.

Robert B. Wallace, Esq., for the respondent.


The Commissioner has determined a deficiency in income tax for 1950 in the amount of $4,188.66. The petitioner contests the determination and claims an overpayment of tax in the amount of $11.34. The only issue remaining is the propriety of respondent's treatment of a $10,000 debenture which became worthless in 1950 as a loss sustained from the sale of a capital asset rather than as a cost of goods sold, as an ordinary and necessary business expense, or as a business loss...

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