LASKER v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 48640.

15 T.C.M. 1243 (1956)

T.C. Memo. 1956-242

Augustus F. Lasker and Henrietta K. Lasker v. Commissioner.

United States Tax Court.

Filed October 31, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Charles Eichenbaum, Esq., Boyle Building, Little Rock, Ark., and Leonard L. Scott, Esq., for the petitioners. J. W. Alexander, Esq., for the respondent.


Memorandum Findings of Fact and Opinion

TURNER, Judge:

The respondent determined a deficiency in income tax against petitioners for the year 1948 in the amount of $12,496.68. The questions for decision are (1) whether a debt owing to petitioner Augustus F. Lasker by a corporation of which he was a stockholder, which debt became worthless in the year 1948, was a bad debt within the meaning of section 23(k)(1) and deductible thereunder, or a non-business debt...

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