McNEILL v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 7527.

251 F.2d 863 (1958)

Robert H. McNEILL, Petitioner, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 11, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilton H. Wallace, Washington, D. C. (Henry F. Lerch and Wallace & Lerch, Washington, D. C., on brief), for petitioner.

Charles B. E. Freeman, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Charles K. Rice, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson and A. F. Prescott, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on brief), for respondent.

Before SOPER and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges, and R. DORSEY WATKINS, District Judge.


SOPER Circuit Judge.

Robert H. McNeill, the taxpayer in this case, is a lawyer who for many years has practiced his profession in Washington, D. C. He has also been interested in real estate, and in the pursuit of this line of activity he acquired a large tract of land near Altoona, Pennsylvania, which he intended to subdivide and to sell in lots. The venture proved unsuccessful despite repeated efforts on his part and the land was finally seized and sold at a loss...

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