BLISS v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 56458.

27 T.C. 770 (1957)

KATHARINE B. BLISS, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Filed February 13, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George A. Donohue, Esq., for the petitioner.

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


OPINION.

RAUM, Judge:

The Commissioner determined a deficiency in income tax for 1950 in the amount of $36,713.45. Only one adjustment is now in controversy. At issue is the amount allowable to petitioner as a deduction for casualty loss sustained by reason of damage to property caused by a windstorm. Sec. 23 (e) (3), I. R. C. 1939. The facts have been stipulated.

Petitioner was born October 7, 1870. Her husband died in 1924. He devised to...

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