BEVERS v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 55695.

26 T.C. 1218 (1956)

LAWRENCE E. BEVERS AND MADELINE V. BEVERS, HUSBAND AND WIFE, PETITIONERS, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Filed September 28, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Ruymann, Esq., for the petitioners.

Mark Townsend, Esq., for the respondent.


This proceeding involves a deficiency in income tax for the year 1953 in the amount of $143.

The issues for decision are: (1) Whether amounts received by a dealer in a gambling casino as his share of the proceeds of wagers made by the patrons for him, and other dealers employed therein, represented taxable income or a gift; and (2) if such amounts are taxable, whether they represented ordinary income, or gambling income from which gambling losses sustained during...

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