PEREL & LOWENSTEIN v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

Nos. 12752, 12753.

237 F.2d 908 (1956)

PEREL & LOWENSTEIN, Inc., Petitioner, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

October 23, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eichenbaum, Walther, Scott & Miller, Little Rock, Ark., for petitioner.

Charles K. Rice, John Potts Barnes, Lee A. Jackson, George F. Lynch, Vernon F. Weekley, and C. Moxley Featherstone, Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Before McALLISTER, MILLER and STEWART, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Although the petitioner corporation's president suffered a stroke resulting in paralysis and loss of the power of speech in 1949, the petitioner continued to pay him a $30,000 salary in each of the following two years, and a salary of $24,000 the third year. Deductions made by the petitioner for these payments were disallowed in their entirety by the respondent Commissioner. The Tax Court found that, "A reasonable allowance for compensation for the personal...

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