WEISS v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 15182.

221 F.2d 152 (1955)

Gilbert WEISS, Petitioner, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 13, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin A. Rosenberg and Rodney Weiss, St. Louis, Mo. (Gilbert Weiss, St. Louis, Mo., pro se, was with them on the brief), for petitioner.

C. Guy Tadlock, Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen. (H. Brian Holland, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Ellis N. Slack and George F. Lynch, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., were on the brief), for respondent.

Before SANBORN, COLLET and VAN OOSTERHOUT, Circuit Judges.


SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

This is a petition to review a decision of the Tax Court redetermining a deficiency in the petitioner's income tax for the year 1947. The deficiency (except for a small amount not in controversy) resulted from the disallowance by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue of a deduction of $15,633.71 taken by the petitioner in his tax return for that year as a loss resulting from the failure of a housing...

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