YORK v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 7677.

261 F.2d 421 (1958)

J. W. YORK and Mary P. York, Petitioners, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 6, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

N. A. Townsend, Jr., Raleigh, N. C. (Poyner, Geraghty, Hartsfield & Townsend, Raleigh, N. C., on the brief), for petitioners.

Wayne G. Barnett, Atty., Dept. of Justice (Charles K. Rice, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson, I. Henry Kutz and C. Guy Tadlock, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for respondent.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge, and BARKSDALE and BRYAN, District Judges.


ALBERT V. BRYAN, District Judge.

Recovery of the income taxes now sought by petitioners York should be decreed. The sum upon which the taxes were assessed was clearly deductible under sec. 23(a), Internal Revenue Code of 1939, as "ordinary and necessary expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year in carrying on * * * [his] trade or business". 26 U.S.C.A. 1952 ed. § 23.

The Tax Court reasoned, to the contrary, that the sum in question — an...

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